Eudora Welty Quotes
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
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I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.
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My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
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We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
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Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.
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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.
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If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.
