More quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."
"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!"
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."