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Frank O'Connor quotes

Ocupation: Writer

Life: September 17, 1903 - March 10, 1966

Birthday: September 17

Death: March 10

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Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.

Topics: Loneliness, Stories, Awareness

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The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

Topics: Art, Light, Stories, Compelled, Inner Light

All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.

source: - Frank O'Connor (1969). “A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories”

Topics: Gratitude, Sorry, Grief

I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

Topics: Hot, Hours, Believer

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

source: - Frank O'Connor (1944). “Crab Apple Jelly: Stories and Tales”

Topics: Men, Two, Trying

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

source: - Frank O'Connor, Michael A. Steinman (1994). “A Frank O'Connor Reader”, p.13, Syracuse University Press

Topics: Hero, Writing, Ideas

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

source: - "My Oedipus complex and other stories".

Topics: Men, Feminist, Feminism, Inspirational Feminist, Anti Feminist

There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.

Topics: Drama, Men, One Day, Solicitors, Little Towns

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

source: - Frank O'Connor (1981). “Collected stories”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

Topics: World, Littles, Hiding

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

source: - Frank O'Connor (2014). “Collected Stories”, p.196, Open Road Media

Topics: Blow, Men, Wind

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