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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

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
Liberty
Freedom
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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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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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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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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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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
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I work whenever I'm let.
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The past is never where you think you left it.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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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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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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