Quote by Flannery OConnor
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery OConnor

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Everywhere I go, Im asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they dont stifle enough of them. Theres many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. – Flannery OConnor

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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. – Flannery OConnor

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Life is an incurable Disease. – Abraham Cowley

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The movement of life has to rest in its own music. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that dont turn out the way youre given the impression that they will. And I think thats all kind of a con. But I think weve probably all been hurt. – Sigourney Weaver

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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. – American Proverb

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There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. – John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know. – R. K. Bergethon

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. – Matsuo Basho

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