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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.

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
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
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Trouble
Dangers
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Running
Earlier
Others
Fools
Better
Later
Truly
Fool

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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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There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.
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Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
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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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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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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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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 is loneliness in its purest form.
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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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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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I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
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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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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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