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Eudora Welty has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Beware of a man with manners.
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The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward…
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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the…
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you…
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction…
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To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and…
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There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and…
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker…
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What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject…
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang…
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The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
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If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
— Joachim du Bellay
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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
— J Mascis
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I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me 'cause…
— Kreayshawn
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I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.
— Jeff Gannon
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The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
— Bill Vaughan
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
— Gore Vidal
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I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
— Eudora Welty
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When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be…
— Andy Warhol
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