Flannery O'Connor

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Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Routine Habits

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988, pt. 3. Originally a letter to A, 10 Feb. 1962.

While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

Flannery O'Connor

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American South

Speaker

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction." Dorothy Lamar Blount Lecture Series. 28 Oct. 1960, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, USA.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Self-knowledge

Speaker

Julian

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. "Everything That Rises Must Converge." New World Writing, 1961.

When the grim reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Grim reaper Death Last Words Editing Writing

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Catharine Carver. 27 Mar. 1959.

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it... If you do manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Novels

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Father John McCown. 9 May 1956.

I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Nature of truth Truth

Speaker

Hazel Motes

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Wise Blood

Medium

Novel

Genre

Southern Gothic

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1952, ch. 10.