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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
“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’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.”
― The Book of Joe
― The Book of Joe
“The jet is a great invention. Besides being a world shrinker, par excellence, it has much of the quality and charm of a roller coaster. And it's big. Once, years ago, on a ten-stop, cross-country air trip, I turned to the man next to me and said, quite genuinely: "What keeps these big goddam things up in the air?”
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
― I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography
“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
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