The air was so quiet he could hear the broken pieces of the sun knocking in the water.
The fact is that if the writer’s attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to control every excess, everything that does not contribute to this central meaning and design. He cannot indulge in sentimentality, in propagandizing, or in pornography and create a work of art, for all these things are excesses. They call attention to themselves and distract from the work as a whole.
The kiss, which had more pressure than feeling behind it, produced that extra surge of adrenalin in the girl that enables one to carry a packed trunk out of a burning house, but in her, the power went at once to the brain.
Anyone who has lived to the age of eighteen has enough stories to last a lifetime.
Sin is a great thing as long as it’s recognized. It leads a good many people to God who wouldn’t get there otherwise.
I call myself The Misfit,” he said, “because I can’t make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment.
Parker had an extra sense that told him when there was a woman nearby watching him.
If we forget our past,” the speaker was saying, “we won’t remember our future and it will be as well for we won’t have one.” The General heard some of these words gradually. He had forgotten history and he didn’t intend to remember it again. He had forgotten the name and face of his wife and the names and faces of his children or even if he had a wife and children, and he had forgotten the names of places and the places themselves and what had happened at them.
Do you have any books the faculty doesn’t particularly recommend?
There a series of Catholic rituals and teachings had offered her young life a coherent universe. By 1946, Savannah had for O’Connor ceded to the university world of Iowa, where new influences, including intellectual joys, brought with them questions and skepticism.
She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every day of her life.
You act like you think you got wiser blood than anybody else,” he said, “but you ain’t! I’m the one has it. Not you. Me.” Haze didn’t say anything. He stood there for an instant, small in the.
No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.
He had learned enough to hate the destruction that had to come and not all that was going to be destroyed.
And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again.
After a while he said, “If there’s no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so as far as he is concerned, a living deformed character is acceptable and a dead whole one is not. The Christian writer particularly will feel that whatever his initial gift is, it comes from God; and no matter how minor a gift it is, he will not be willing to destroy it by trying to use it outside its proper limits.
I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.
With grown people, a road led either to heaven or hell, but with children there were always stops along the way where their attention could be turned with a trifle.
Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.