I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.Flannery OConnor
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery OConnor
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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