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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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
Texas
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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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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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I always write a story in one sitting.
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The past is never where you think you left it.
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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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You waste life when you waste good food.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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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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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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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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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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It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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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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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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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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