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. Flannery OConnor
There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
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Cassandra Clare
Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
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John Milton
He offered her the world. She said she had her own.
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Monique Duval
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
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Shannon Hale
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that...
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Arthur Conan Doyle
More Quotes By Flannery OConnor
Resistance is NOT futile.
The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.
Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.
