"My continuing passion is to part a curtain,……" — Eudora Welty
"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."
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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 Blinds Quotes
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
— John Perry Barlow
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on…
— Roseanne Barr
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.
— Janet Morris
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with…
— Richard Dawkins
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
— H. Rider Haggard
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less…
— William Hazlitt
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
— William Dean Howells
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see…
— William Faulkner
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