Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and … - Flannery O'Connor

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It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

Flannery O'Connor

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

Behavior, Character, Good, Matter, Pious, Written

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I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

Believe, Doubt, Doubts, Suffering, Think, Thinking

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Believe, Faith, Knows, Literature

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

Away, Fiction, Get Away, Say, Writing

On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think. . . of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

Class, Classes, Divide, Feminine, Sex, Thinking

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

Atheist, Catholic, Methodist, Would Be

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Jennifer Aniston

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

Life, Living, Living My Life, Realised, Stopping

H. P. Lovecraft

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

Changeless, Delight, Ephemeral, Past, Spring, Superficial

Ti West

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.

Course, Thematically, Theme, Valley, Valleys, Violence

Gamal Abdel Nasser

The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel. . . to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not of more declarations.

Armies, Army, Challenge, Iraq, Kuwait, Today

Marc Jacobs