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We are born knowing death.

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
Knowing
Born
Death

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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 are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.
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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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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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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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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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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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There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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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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Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
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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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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
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