Eudora Welty Quotes
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
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I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
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I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.
