More quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now."
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."