"The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Examination Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Freak Quotes

“Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.”
“I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas.”
“Before I got married, I dated the gamut.”
“In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.”
“Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.”
“For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.”
“I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.”
“Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.”

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