"We are the breakers of our own hearts"

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Source : Eudora Welty (1996). “One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Eudora Welty

“It's not the black belt that you wear on your waist. It's the black belt in your heart and knowing that you can go out there and you can do it. That's what a true black belt is.”
“One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.”
“Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.”

Source : "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with George Wallace, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.
“The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.”
“If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.”
“By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.”
“Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”
“Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.”

Source : Robert C. Atkins (2000). “Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution”, G K Hall & Company

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