"The mystery in how little we know of……" — Eudora Welty
"The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought."
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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our…
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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we…
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
— Abu Bakr
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
— Abu Bakr
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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