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All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.
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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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.
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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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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself your style is an emanation from your own being.
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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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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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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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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We are born knowing death.
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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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You waste life when you waste good food.
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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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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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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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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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