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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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Autobiographer
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
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Jackson
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Eudora Alice Welty
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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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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.
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