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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
Essayist
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Indian Creek
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I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.
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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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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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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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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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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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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
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I always write a story in one sitting.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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We are born knowing death.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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