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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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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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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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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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It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.
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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
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One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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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 want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
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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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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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There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
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A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
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