It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in … - Flannery O'Connor

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We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

Flannery O'Connor

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

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Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

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We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

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For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame.

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