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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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
