Quotes from Flannery O'Connor

I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.

The dead don't bother with particulars.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.