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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
Journalist
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Indian Creek
Texas
Men
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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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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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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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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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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 have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself your style is an emanation from your own being.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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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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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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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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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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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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