"To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."

-- Eudora Welty

#Writing Quotes #Doe Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer”
“Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose Iâ€™d take Scotch. Itâ€™s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.”
“To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.”
“I have a whole different type of lifestyle.”
“Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a man I don't love simply because I used to love him? No, I forgo nothing, I love any man who appeals to me and I make any man who loves me happy. Is that ugly? No, it is at least far more beautiful than my cruelly delighting in the tortures incited by my charms and my virtuously turning my back on the poor man who pines away for me. I am young, rich, and beautiful, and just as I am, I live cheerfully for pleasure and enjoyment.”
“The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.”
“A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.”
“When you are on the ground, only one of you two can be comfortable at any one time. Either you are comfortable or the opponent is. Your job is to transfer the comfortable from him to you in every position”

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