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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.
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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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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You waste life when you waste good food.
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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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We are born knowing death.
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I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.
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