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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of 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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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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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.
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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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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.
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We are born knowing death.
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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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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
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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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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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