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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
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
Consequence
Death
Doe
Cancels
Life
Engagements
Engagement
Affect
Consequences
Acts

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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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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 can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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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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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 do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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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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