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[apocryphics]

flannery o'connor

[quotespile]

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners

[dramoor]

“This is the central Christian mystery. Life has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.”

~Flannery O'Connor

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

René Magritte - Les fanatiques (1955)

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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.” ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

[alchemisoul]

[gods-blade]

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was 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.

--Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

[dzgrizzle]

“Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. That is a large statement, and it is dangerous to make it, for almost anything you say about Southern belief can be denied in the next breath with equal propriety. But approaching the subject from the standpoint of the writer, I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The Southerner, who isn't convinced of it, is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God. Ghosts can be very fierce and instructive. They cast strange shadows, particularly in our literature. In any case, it is when the freak can be sensed as a figure for our essential displacement that he attains some depth in literature.”

~ Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

[litsnaps]

[dk-thrive]

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.

Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood (Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1952) (via Alive on All Channels)

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

- Flannery O'Connor

[quotespile]

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find

[cherrygasolines]

nowhere to go from here

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Noctiphany

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“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.” ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

Flannery O'Connor

[h0rifix]

“𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔴 𝔍𝔢𝔰𝔲𝔰 𝔪𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡, 𝔞 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔡 𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔤𝔢𝔡 𝔣𝔦𝔤𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔥𝔦𝔪 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫 𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔣𝔣 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔟𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔩𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔦𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔰𝔲𝔡𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔦𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔯𝔬𝔴𝔫."

- 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨'𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐫. (𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟐). 'wise blood: a novel’