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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.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Indian Creek
Texas
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Away
Bold
Better
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Afraid
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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
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In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.
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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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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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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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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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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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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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All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.
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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 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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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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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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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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