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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
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Screenwriter
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Indian Creek
Texas
Limits
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Lows
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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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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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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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Mexican writer and diplomat, Pasado en claro (A Draft of Shadows) You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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I work whenever I'm let.
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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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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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I always write a story in one sitting.
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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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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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