Eudora Welty Short Quotes

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The first act of insight is to throw away the labels.

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Passion is our ground, our island — do others exist?

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He loved being happy! He loved happiness like I love tea.

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The very next moment, something terrible almost happened.

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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

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The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

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She was a perfect lady — just set in her seat and stared.

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She was kind; her company was the next thing to being alone.

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Her voice had the sway of an aerialist crossing the high wire.

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All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

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The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

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I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

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The storm had rolled away to faintness like a wagon crossing a bridge.

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His memory could work like the slinging of a noose to catch a wild pony.

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Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

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Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

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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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They bit their underlips tightly as old people do in carrying out acts of rudeness.

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He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.

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Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

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A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told — returned to the world it came out of.

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I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

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All they could see was sky, water, birds, light, and confluence. It was the whole morning world.

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

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