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The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.
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
Texas
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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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 can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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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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The past is never where you think you left it.
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I work whenever I'm let.
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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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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
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Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.
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We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.
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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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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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We are born knowing death.
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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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