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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
Ends
Nothing
Self
Right
Anorexia
Thief
Thieves
Leaving
Afraid
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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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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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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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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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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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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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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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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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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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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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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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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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I always write a story in one sitting.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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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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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
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We are born knowing death.
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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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