Total nonretention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
Flannery O'Connor
He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.''What you got on it?' the girl said.'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.''Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.
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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
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Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
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Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.. Nothing outside you can give you any place.. In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
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Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.
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He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery..
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
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The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.
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If you live today, you breath in nihilism.. It's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
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Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.
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