When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.
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'ConnorThe Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.
Flannery O'ConnorThe idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
Flannery O'Connor