Eudora Welty Quotes
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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What I do is I do my job.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
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I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
