Flannery O'Connor

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

—Flannery O'Connor

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

—Flannery O'Connor

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

—Flannery O'Connor

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

—Flannery O'Connor

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

—Flannery O'Connor

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

—Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles 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