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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
Freedom
Remember
Liberty

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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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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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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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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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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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