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Eudora Welty Quotes

«A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.»
Author: Eudora Welty (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: daring, sheltered
«A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.»
«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.»
«She was a perfect lady - just sat in her seat and stared»
Author: Eudora Welty (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: Sat, seat, stared
«When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.»
«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.»
Author: Eudora Welty (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: disappointing
«All serious daring starts from within.»
«The Waves.»
«[As for her being a] Maiden Aunt, ... striking ability to charm the opposite sex.»
«I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.»

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