To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery OConnor
Theres many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. – Flannery OConnor
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery OConnor
Theres many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. – Flannery OConnor
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
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
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