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The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.Flannery OConnor
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Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know. .Flannery OConnor
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The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are... There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...Flannery OConnor
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It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an instant.Flannery OConnor
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You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.Flannery OConnor
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You can't just say NO, " he said. "You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.Flannery OConnor