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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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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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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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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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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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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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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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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With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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