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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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Eudora Alice Welty
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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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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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!
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