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Wise Blood Quotes
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Literature
Undergraduate 4
05/10/2012

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Mrs. Wally B. Hitchcock

pg. 4

To Hazel

 

 

Definition
"I guess you're going home."
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Flannery O'Connor

pg. 33

During Motes 2nd night in Taulkinham. O'Connor talks about the machinery of the sky but no one is paying attention to it. The shops are open late on Thursdays. Commentary on commercialism 

 

We actually looked at this whole page

 

Definition
No one was paying any attention to the sky
Term

O'Connor

pg. 25

More comments on comsumerism

Definition
When he got to Taulkinham, as soon as he stepped off the train, he began to see signs and lights, PEANUTS, WESTERN UNION, AJAX TAXI, HOTEL, CANDY. Most of them were electric and moved up and down or blinked frantically.
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Enoch Emery

pg. 40

Definition

"I'm eighteen year old and I ain't been here but two months and I already work for the city."

 

 

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Enoch

pg. 195

Definition

The man lowered the paper and looked at him. _____ smiled. The man raised the paper again. "Could I borrow some part of your paper that you ain't studying?" ____ asked. 

 

 

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Enoch

pg. 195

Definition

The man lowered it again and stared at him; he had muddy unflinching eyes. He leafed deliberately through the paper and shook out the sheet with the comic strips and handed it to ____. 

 

 

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Enoch 

pg. 130

 

 

Definition

The first thing he found himself doing that was not normal was saving his pay. He was saving all of it, except what his landlady came to collect every week and what he had to to use to buy something to eat with. Then to his surprise, he found he wasn't eating very much and he was saving that money too.

 

 

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Enoch

pg. 130

 

 

Definition
He had a fondness for Supermarkets; it was his custom to spend an hour or so in one every afternoon after he left that city park, browsing around among the canned goods and reading the cereal stories.
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Enoch

pg. 130

Definition

Lastly he had been compelled to pick up a few things here and there that would not be bulky in his pockets,

 

 

 

 

and he wondered if this could be the reason he was saving so much money on food. 

 

 

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Enoch Emery

pg. 130

 

 

Definition
He had always been given to stealing but he had never saved before.
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Enoch Emery

pg. 130

 

 

Definition
There was a mummified look and feel to this residence, but ____ had never thought before of brightening the part (corresponding to the head) that he lived in. Then he simply found himself doing it.
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Enoch Emery

pg. 130

 

 

Definition
... he was not a foolhard boy who took chances on the meanings of things. For the time, he knew that what he didn't know was what mattered.
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Enoch 

178

 

 

Definition
When he was four years old, his father had brough him home a tin box from the penitentiary. It was orange and had a picture of some peanut brittle on the outside of it and green letters that said, A NUTTY SURPRISe!
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Enoch 

178

Definition

When ____ had opened it, a coiled piece of stell had sprung out at him and broken off the ends of his two front teeth. 

 

 

Term

Hazel Motes

140

 

 

Definition
"If you had been redeemed, you would care about redemption but you don't. Look inside yourselves and see if you hadn't rather it wasn't if it was. There's no peace for the redeemed."
Term

Motes

pg. 165

Definition

"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth."

Term

Motes

165

Definition

"No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place."

 

 

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Onnie Jay Holy

152-153

Definition
"Now, friends, I want to tell you a second reason why you can absolutely trust this church -- it's based on the Bible. Yes sir! It's based on your own personal interpretation of the Bible, friends."
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Enoch 

195

Definition

It was _____'s favorite part. He read it every evening like an office. 

 

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Onnie Jay Holy

153

Definition
"You can sit at home and interpri your own Bible however you feel in your heart it ought to be interprited. That's right, just the way Jesus would have done it. Gee, i wisht I had my guittarr here."
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Onnie Jay Holy

157

 

 

Definition
"It don't make any difference how many Christs you add to the name if you don't add none to the meaning, friend."
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Onnie Jay Holy

pg. 157

Definition
"You ought to listen to me because I'm not just an amateur. I'm an artist-type."
Term
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet. You got good idears but what you need is an artist-type to work with you."
Definition

Onnie to Hazel

157

Term

Hazel

168

Definition

"If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it'll hunt you down and kill you."

 

 

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Mrs. Flood 

232-233

Definition

She wanted to run out into the rain and cold hunt him and find him huddled in some half-sheltered place and bring him back and say ____,______, you can stay here forever, or the two of us will go where you're going, the two of us will go.

 

 

Term

Mrs. Flood

233

Definition
She had had a hard life, without pain and without pleasure, and she thought that now that she was coming to the last part of it, she deserved a friend.
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