Eudora Welty Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Eudora Welty:
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
~Eudora Welty
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Beware of a man with manners.
~Eudora Welty
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~Eudora Welty
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All serious daring starts from within.
~Eudora Welty
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
~Eudora Welty
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To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
~Eudora Welty
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Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
~Eudora Welty
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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.
~Eudora Welty
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
~Eudora Welty
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I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
~Eudora Welty
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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.
~Eudora Welty
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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
~Eudora Welty
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A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
~Eudora Welty
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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 of themselves like grass.
~Eudora Welty
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
~Eudora Welty
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