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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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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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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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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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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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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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 specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
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