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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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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 always write a story in one sitting.
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A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself your style is an emanation from your own being.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.
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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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In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.
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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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I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
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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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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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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 want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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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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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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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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