Sunday, September 12, 2010

Thought for the Day

My continuing passion is to part a curtain,
that invisible shadow that falls between people—
the veil of indifference to each other's presence,
each other's wonder, each other's human plight.
~ Eudora Welty, Novelist, Short Story Writer

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Eudora Welty, 1909 - 2001, Biography

Eudora Welty Bibliography

Eudora Welty Foundation (Jackson, Mississippi)

Eudora Welty House

Eudora Welty Review

Patti Carr Black (Ed.), Eudora Welty's World: Words on Nature (Edge Press, 2005)

T.A. Frail, "Eudora Welty as Photographer", Smithsonian Magazine, April 2009
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7 comments:

  1. Kathleen OverbySeptember 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM

    Ok. Yes. Wow. Gulp.

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  2. S. EtoleSeptember 12, 2010 at 10:58 AM

    Yes, what a good parting that would be ...

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  3. Louise GallagherSeptember 12, 2010 at 11:15 AM

    The world is better for having had her presence. We are richer for hearing her voice.

    Thank you for this quote -- fabulous!

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  4. Louise GallagherSeptember 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM

    PS. Hope you've have a great weekend!

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM

    eudora...cool name!

    and i like the quote.

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  6. A. Jay AdlerSeptember 12, 2010 at 3:28 PM

    What an essential statement: "to part a curtain - the veil of indifference to each other's presence." That's it.

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  7. Brian MillerSeptember 12, 2010 at 6:09 PM

    excellent quote and viewpoint...i hope to part that curtain somedays myself...thanks for the intro to your friend the photographer over at one shot as well..

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