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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

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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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it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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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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The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new but that is enough.
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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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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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
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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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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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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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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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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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