"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."

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Flannery O'Connor

#Peculiar Quotes #Location Quotes #Problem Quotes

“My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right...”
“I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.”
“I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.”
“I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.”
“Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.”
“Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.”
“If you can't you must, and if you must you can.”
“We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.”

Source : "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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