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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
– Flannery OConnor

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  2. The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem. – Flannery OConnor
  3. The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. – Flannery OConnor
  4. No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. – Flannery OConnor
  5. Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. – Flannery OConnor
  6. Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. – Flannery OConnor
  7. It’s easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes. – Flannery OConnor
  8. I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. – Flannery OConnor
  9. When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle. – Flannery OConnor
  10. My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be. – Flannery OConnor
  11. In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got. – Flannery OConnor
  12. Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices. – Flannery OConnor
  13. 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 – Flannery OConnor
  14. His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. – Flannery OConnor
  15. The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don’t hold nothing back. – Flannery OConnor
  16. Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people’s in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack. – Flannery OConnor
  17. Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. – Flannery OConnor
  18. He had measured five feet four inches of pure game????. – Flannery OConnor
  19. You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. – Flannery OConnor
  20. Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. – Flannery OConnor
  21. What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either. – Lou AndreasSalom
  22. I think every writer has a little freak in -˜em. – AD Posey
  23. Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace. – Sinead OConnor
  24. Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace. – Sinead OConnor
  25. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  26. Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles-”and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others. – Billy Graham
  27. Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience. – Harper Lee
  28. The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. – Leo Tolstoy
  29. When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. – David Leavitt
  30. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
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  32. I’m fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don’t really care. – Briana Blair
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  35. [Al-Qaeda’s supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands – Osama bin Laden
  36. On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations. – Peter Heg
  37. Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact… always supersedes belief. – Yosef AA BenJochannan
  38. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible. – Elena Ferrante
  39. He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning. – Richard DavenportHines
  40. They really cut to the chase in the urologist’s examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R. – Mike Birbiglia

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