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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

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
Human
Searchlight
Humans
Merciless
Great
Darkest
Turned
Places
Marriage
White
Nature
Revealer

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