Eudora Welty Quotes

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

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• Tenderness
• Bulbs
• Hyacinths

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• 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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  • Violence
  • Difficult
  • Tenderness