She was a cosmopolitan woman still expecting to encounter and savor something new and unusual, still filled with the joy of seeing and hearing and writing.


Eudora Welty

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Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
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Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?
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You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
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We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
Generally speaking, a man speaks occasionally lies with his mouth to the women to a required measure...
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...instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you righ...
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The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.
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I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been...
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I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I was...
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
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I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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You do what you love, what you need
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I turned.
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Write. Don't think. Relax.
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Y escribir cada día,
ganar la lotería
de al menos una frase
que nadie ha dicho nunc...
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It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to ...
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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense...
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Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
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In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still...
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In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still...
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Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
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They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
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She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three...
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He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
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Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile...
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When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr...
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Be continually filled with Joy, get excited and expect new opportunities
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And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
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A woman is like a horse: He who can drive her is her master
NIGERIAN PROVERB
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
NANCY REAGAN
When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best
LATIN PROVERB
The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run
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Woman is at once apple and serpent
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There is perhaps no one who gives so much pain to a man but a woman who enters in his life as girlfr...
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The intensity of intention inside a woman’s mind to reign like a queen is so pronounced that she e...
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Hay quien prefiere ser el primer amor. Yo he preferido siempre ser el último.
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She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speakin...
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Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
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I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
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I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
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I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
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This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
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Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
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Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
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Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
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I love you, but I love myself more.
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Desperate Housewives.
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I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
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It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
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the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
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A stud is born! [Stanford]
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Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
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No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
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More Eudora Welty

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
EUDORA WELTY
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than ot...
EUDORA WELTY
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY
All serious daring starts from within.
EUDORA WELTY
Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing...
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...
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Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.
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Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
EUDORA WELTY
She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.
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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outl...
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sen...
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own ...
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I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and bind...
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They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in...
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A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
EUDORA WELTY
Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is...
EUDORA WELTY
His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it befor...
EUDORA WELTY
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
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It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...
EUDORA WELTY
It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and st...
EUDORA WELTY
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
EUDORA WELTY
Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery...brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wh...
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Beware of a man with manners.
EUDORA WELTY
On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the sh...
EUDORA WELTY
It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on ...
EUDORA WELTY
When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we ...
EUDORA WELTY
My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my dec...
EUDORA WELTY
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY
Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
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Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...
EUDORA WELTY
When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never h...
EUDORA WELTY
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...
EUDORA WELTY
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
EUDORA WELTY
House said to Finesse, not even trying to mask the irritation in his voice. ''Can't we go into the s...
EUDORA WELTY
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
EUDORA WELTY
She was a perfect lady - just sat in her seat and stared
EUDORA WELTY
[As for her being a] Maiden Aunt, ... striking ability to charm the opposite sex.
EUDORA WELTY
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...
EUDORA WELTY
I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a sym...
EUDORA WELTY
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
EUDORA WELTY
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own ...
EUDORA WELTY
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a huma...
EUDORA WELTY
Our Victrola stood in the diningroom. I was allowed to climb onto the seat of a diningroom chair to ...
EUDORA WELTY
It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in a...
EUDORA WELTY
She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed...
EUDORA WELTY
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they fi...
EUDORA WELTY
I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother E...
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmt...
EUDORA WELTY
I'm a great reader that never has time to read.
EUDORA WELTY
I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger w...
EUDORA WELTY
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say w...
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All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Child...
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What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...
EUDORA WELTY
She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...
EUDORA WELTY
On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...
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I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all s...
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I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including ...
EUDORA WELTY
I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all...
EUDORA WELTY
In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entert...
EUDORA WELTY
A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequ...
EUDORA WELTY
He loved happiness like I love tea.
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It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...
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It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, ...
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As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern.

He...
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To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it i...
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My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, r...
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The Waves.
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