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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
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
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Indian Creek
Texas
Limits
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Lows
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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.
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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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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 have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.
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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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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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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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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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I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.
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One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.
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