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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.

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
Society
Hostile
Freedom
Feed
Artist
Arts
Action
Secure
Art
Bread
Cannot
Critics
Expect
Regularly
Simply
Critic

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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.
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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 specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
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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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. . . 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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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