3 Quotes & Sayings By Denton Welch

Denton Welch is a writer and a professor of English at Texas A&M University. He has published stories in a variety of anthologies and journals. His work has appeared in the "Houston Review," "Southwest Review," "Black Warrior Review," "Purple Pencil," "Fence," and others.

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The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, "I wish I were a cat! " Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike. Denton Welch
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I began to long, as I had before, for some special smell, some special music that would fill me, lift me up and carry me away, float me off the rocks of my body and sweep me into some wideness, some vast expanse of blue-grey nothingness. Denton Welch