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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

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Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new, but that is enough.

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Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

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Eudora Welty

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:
  1. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980)
  2. The Optimist's Daughter (1972)
  3. One Writer's Beginnings (1984)
  4. Delta Wedding (1946)
  5. A Curtain of Green (1941)
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