"I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Advice Quotes #Handy Quotes #Following Quotes

“The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.”
“I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.”
“So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.”
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
“It's good to be the king.”
“I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.”
“'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
“I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.”

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