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Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Flannery O'Connor
Eye, Grace, Feelings
Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

Flannery O'Connor
Ideas, People, Feelings
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

Flannery O'Connor
Broken, Feelings, Giants
Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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