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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
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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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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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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I work whenever I'm let.
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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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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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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
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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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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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