Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I write to discover what I know.
Unadaptability is often a virtue.
The meaning of the story is the story.
The dead don't bother with particulars.
Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.
Grace changes us and change is painful".
Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.
It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.
The life you save may very well be your own.
Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !
Kindness and patience were always called for.
Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.
Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.
I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
A God you understood would be less than yourself.
In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.
I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.
It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.
Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.