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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Eudora Welty

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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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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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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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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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Don't give anybody up. He stroked her. Or leave anybody out. Me and you both left her out today, and I'm ashamed for us. There just wasn't room in today for it ... He said, There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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Time is anonymous when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
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