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The past is never where you think you left it.

Katherine Anne Porter

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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
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Left
Past
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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I work whenever I'm let.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
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Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.
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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.
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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself your style is an emanation from your own being.
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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.
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If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
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