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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Eudora Welty

Born: April 13, 1909
Died: July 23, 2001 (aged 92)
Bio: Eudora Alice Welty was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
Known for:
- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980)
- The Optimist's Daughter (1972)
- One Writer's Beginnings (1984)
- Delta Wedding (1946)
- A Curtain of Green (1941)
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