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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.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
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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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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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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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We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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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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