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Flannery O'Connor

"There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy."

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"There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy."

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Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

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"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
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"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
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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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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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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."
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"I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing."
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"To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks."
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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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