“Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.”

—  Eudora Welty

Source: The Wide Net and Other Stories

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American author 1909–2001

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