"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

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Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.165, Macmillan

Flannery O'Connor

#Burden Quotes #Retention Quotes

“My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.”
“I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.”
“I think fashion is the only thing I'm fully suited to do because I am super impatient, which I think is a good thing for fashion. I could never work on something for two years. I would do 20 things and finish none of them. I always admire people who have that ability to sustain something for that long a period.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write,”
“With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.
“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”
“In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.”

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