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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.

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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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A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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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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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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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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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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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
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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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it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there the point is to have a destination.
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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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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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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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To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
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Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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