"From the first I was clamorous to learn…" — Eudora Welty
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92 Quotes by Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty has 92 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe,…
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river…
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else…
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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…
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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…
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about…
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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…
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and…
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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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More Clamorous Quotes
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one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
— Isaac Barrow
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
— William Shakespeare
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of…
— Oscar Wilde
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws…
— Joseph Addison
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Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but…
— Joy Williams
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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous…
— Walter Lippmann
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To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
— Sophocles
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
— Ben Okri
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)…
— H. L. Mencken
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Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of…
— H. L. Mencken
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The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits.
— William Shakespeare
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts…
— William Shakespeare
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