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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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Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.
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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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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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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
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Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
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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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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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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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No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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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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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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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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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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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
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