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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Eudora Alice Welty
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
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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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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.
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How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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