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Eudora Welty - The Optimist's Daughter (1972)

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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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But the guilt of outliving those you love is justly to be borne, she thought. Outliving is something we do to them. The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Surviving is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.

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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

Born: April 13, 1909
Died: July 23, 2001 (aged 92)
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