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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
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Indian Creek
Texas
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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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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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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
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I always write a story in one sitting.
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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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Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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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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I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.
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You waste life when you waste good food.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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