Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burde... - Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

"Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing."

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

"A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him."