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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

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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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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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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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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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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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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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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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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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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Time is anonymous when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?
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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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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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A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
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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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