Eudora Welty quotes - page 2

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. (Eudora Welty)
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. View quote
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Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried. View quote
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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. View quote
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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. View quote
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I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. View quote
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I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. View quote
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The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought. View quote
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Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. View quote
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Beware of a man with manners. View quote
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My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. (Eudora Welty)
The story and its analyses are not mirror-opposites of each other. They are not reflections, either one. Criticism indeed is an art, as a story is, but only the story is to some degree a vision; there is no explanation outside fiction for what the writer is learning to do. View quote
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. View quote
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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel... but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make. View quote
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If you're so smart, why ain't you rich? View quote
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A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. View quote
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Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame. View quote
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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others. View quote
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. View quote
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Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. View quote
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