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To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

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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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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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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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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.
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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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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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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Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
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Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.
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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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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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