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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
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If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
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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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Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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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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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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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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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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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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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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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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I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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