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Flannery O'Connor

"Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited."

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"Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited."

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Donna Grant

"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."

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Donna Grant

"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."

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"Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people."

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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"

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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."

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"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley."

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"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."

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"Happiness at any price is no happiness at all."

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"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."

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Flannery O'Connor
"The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live."

Creativity

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Flannery O'Connor
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."

Time

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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

Old

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Flannery O'Connor
"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

Experience

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Flannery O'Connor
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."

Life

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Flannery O'Connor
"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."

Will

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Flannery O'Connor
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

Writer

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Art

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"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."

Business

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Flannery O'Connor
"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."

Philosophy

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