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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
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Fall
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
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I always write a story in one sitting.
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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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There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.
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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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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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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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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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The past is never where you think you left it.
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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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