Eudora Welty Quotes
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners.
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To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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They have a problem with unmarried women who think, 'No, we don't need national defense, we need our birth control paid for.' And why? Because single women look at the government as their husbands. 'Please provide for me, please take care of me.'
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
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I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.
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The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
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The pleasure of hanging with Drake is that there isn't a question he won't try to answer openly and honestly, shifting easily and unselfconsciously between talk of the rap game, money, family, and love.
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You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.
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The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
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The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.
