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Flannery O'Connor

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

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"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

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"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."

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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

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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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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
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"My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be."
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"I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation."
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"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."
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"The theologian is interested specifically in the modern novel because there he sees reflected the man of our time, the unbeliever, who is nevertheless grappling in a desperate and usually honest way with intense problems of the spirit."
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