The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he … - Flannery O'Connor

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We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

Flannery O'Connor

The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.

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I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

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It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

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On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think. . . of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

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I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

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