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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Autobiographer
Literary Critic
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Jackson
Mississippi
Eudora Alice Welty
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Comprehended
Places
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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