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A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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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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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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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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.
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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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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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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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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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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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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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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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Daydreaming had started me on the way but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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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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Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.
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Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
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Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
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