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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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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Eudora Alice Welty
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
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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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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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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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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
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