She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
Flannery O'ConnorI donโt want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a gluttonโโfor Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.
Flannery O'ConnorSt. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: โThe dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.โ No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.
Flannery O'Connor