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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
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Indian Creek
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Religion
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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
Katherine Anne Porter
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 shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
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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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. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.
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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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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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Mexican writer and diplomat, Pasado en claro (A Draft of Shadows) You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
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A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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We are born knowing death.
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There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.
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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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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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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.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
Katherine Anne Porter
It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
Katherine Anne Porter
You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.
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