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Eudora Welty

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than ot...
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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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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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Beware of a man with manners.
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[As for her being a] Maiden Aunt, ... striking ability to charm the opposite sex.
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I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a sym...
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Never think you've seen the last of anything.
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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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She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed...
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmt...
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I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger w...
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He loved happiness like I love tea.
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As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern.

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A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum.
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A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not.
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A good name can open ways for your great grand children.
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A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty.
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