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Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
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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 is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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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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Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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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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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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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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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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I always write a story in one sitting.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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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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There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.
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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 do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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