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Eudora Welty Quotes about Memories

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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Eudora Welty
Memories, Diaries, Letters

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

Eudora Welty
Memories, Lost, Strands
Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.

Eudora Welty
Art, Memories, Writing
Eudora Welty (2002). “On Writing”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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