Eudora Welty Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.
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Women's tennis has been all over the place the last few years and when you throw in injuries, it's taken on even more of a wild-card dimension.
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
