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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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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
Positively
Nose
Noses
Surely
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Impressionable
Unruly
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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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 look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.
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I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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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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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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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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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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Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
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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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