Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connorwas an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, she wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. Her writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Her posthumously-compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 March 1925
CitySavannah, GA
CountryUnited States of America
When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding...
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.
Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.
She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...