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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Eudora Welty
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- 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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