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✵ 13. duben 1909 – 23. červenec 2001   •   Další jména یودورا ولتی, ეუდორა უელტი, יודורה ולטי
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“All serious daring starts from within.”

Zdroj: On Writing (2002)

“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”

Eudora Welty kniha One Writer's Beginnings

One Writer's Beginnings(1984)
Kontext: It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

“She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.”

Eudora Welty kniha One Writer's Beginnings

Zdroj: One Writer's Beginnings

“If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?”

"Petrified Man", 1941