It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.
One place comprehended can make us understand other places better. - Eudora Welty
One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
- Eudora Welty
Write about what you don't know about what you know. - Eudora Welty
Write about what you don't know about what you know.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. - Eudora Welty
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
One place understood helps us understand all places better - Eudora Welty
One place understood helps us understand all places better
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revel… - Eudora Welty
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revel…
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. - Eudora Welty
The first act of insight is throw away the labels.
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. - Eudora Welty
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
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, ea… - 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, ea…
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. - Eudora Welty
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
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