Flannery O'Connor

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Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.

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

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

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Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

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

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

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

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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.