Flannery O'Connor

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

“The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.”

“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”

“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”

“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.”

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