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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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Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.
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We are born knowing death.
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A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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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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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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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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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.
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There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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I always write a story in one sitting.
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