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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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Indian Creek
Texas
Limits
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Lows
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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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we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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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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We are born knowing death.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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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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Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.
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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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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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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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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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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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I always write a story in one sitting.
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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