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“This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.”
Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.343, Macmillan
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“It's very important to make nuclear deals but you have to make them from strength, not from weakness.”
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“I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.”
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“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
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“I've been taking longer to write stories lately.”
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“What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?”
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“I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.”
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“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.”
Source : "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.
