Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened … - Eudora Welty

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And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

Eudora Welty

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else. . . Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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One place understood helps us understand all places better

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People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

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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 come 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. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.

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