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Eudora Welty hypmotizes the Reader as an invisible character in to each short story. Like a good dream throughout the day The Reader will wish for more of a memory of that dream of that Welty Stpre. And finally The Welty Reader will research and beg
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“In order to get out of the dumps, there are many steps to walk up, and most of the ones I know of, not only for myself but others, are made of money.”
― The Book of Joe
― The Book of Joe
“I do, however, get along fine with apes and I have worked sack of potatoes in front of the camera. Trainers tell me they like my voice and that because I treat them as people they like me. Well, it’s easy to do, since some of them are people and easier to work with than some—people, I mean actors.”
― The Book of Joe
― The Book of Joe
“San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions.”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“Nevertheless, Los Angeles is my "Home, Sweet Home." I chose it, and, as goes the cliché, I've made my bed—but I'll be damned if I'll lie in it or, worse, culturally die in it!”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“I happened to see Larry King interview Billy Graham shortly after the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. I had read an article the previous month about violent video games and their effects on the minds of children, desensitizing them to the act of killing. Larry King asked Billy Graham what was wrong with the world, and how such a thing as Columbine could happen. I knew, because Billy Graham was an educated man, he had read the same article I had read, and I began calculating his answer for him, that violence begets violence, and that we live in a culture desensitized to the beauty of human life and the sanctity of creation. But Billy Graham did not blame video games. Billy Graham looked Larry King in the eye and said, 'Thousands of years ago, a young couple lived in a garden called Eden, and God placed a tree in the Garden and told them not to eat from the tree...'
And I knew in my soul he was right.”
― Searching for God Knows What
And I knew in my soul he was right.”
― Searching for God Knows What
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