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Eudora Welty Quotes
Best Quotes by Eudora Welty (Top 10)
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All serious daring starts from within.
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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them — with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
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We are the breakers of our own hearts
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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.
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More Eudora Welty Quotes
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
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For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
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Human life is fiction's only theme.
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