Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles wr... - Flannery O'Connor
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."
"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."
"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!"
"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."