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Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern

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Eudora Welty
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1909 to 2001; Wikidata Q259364, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259364 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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