"The first act of insight is throw away…" — Eudora Welty

"The first act of insight is throw away the labels."

— Eudora Welty

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92 Quotes by Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Beware of a man with manners.
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an…
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe,…
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river…
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else…
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first…
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of…
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about…
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are…
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and…
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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