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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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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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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The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.
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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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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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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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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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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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We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.
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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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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 work whenever I'm let.
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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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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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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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There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.
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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.
Katherine Anne Porter
