I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.
Flannery O'ConnorThere won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
Flannery O'ConnorOnce the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.
Flannery O'ConnorPeople without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
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