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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
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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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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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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.
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Mexican writer and diplomat, Pasado en claro (A Draft of Shadows) You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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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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