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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.
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.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. Th... (more Flannery O'Connor quotes)
| Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America) by Flannery O'Connor | |
| Three by Flannery O'Connor (Signet Classics) by Flannery O'Connor and Sally Fitzgerald | |
| The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor and Sally Fitzgerald |
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