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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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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You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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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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Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?
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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 shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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