More quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."
"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."