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Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
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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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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
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Beware of a man with manners.
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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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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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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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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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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
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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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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
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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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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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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
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My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
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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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I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
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