Zack added a quote:
"Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them." — Flannery O'Connor

Zack added a quote:
"I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge." — Flannery O'Connor

Zack added a quote:
"Total nonretention has kept my education from being a burden to me." — Flannery O'Connor

Zack liked a trivia question:
Which one of these novels opens with this sentence?

"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car." see if you know the answer »