"...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it."

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Source : Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.129, Rutgers University Press

Flannery O'Connor

#Struggle Quotes #World Quotes #Cherish Quotes

“What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives”
“One practical point many experts will attest to is that if you want to develop someone as a leader, give them lots of responsibility early in their lives and careers. The military does that. I can remember being officer of the deck on a destroyer, on watch and in charge at two in the morning as we plowed through the Mediterranean while 300 shipmates slept below decks. I was 25 at the time. I don't know how much of a leader I ever became, but the experience certainly brought home to me a sense of responsibility for others.”

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“I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.”
“My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.”
“If Peteâ€™s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if heâ€™s a boy, my son will defeat him.”
“They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.”
“I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the outside as a director might see it, but within yourself you become used to the idea of hearing your fellow actors, responding to them in space.”
“Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith...”

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