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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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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.
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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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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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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 is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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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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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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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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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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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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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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We are born knowing death.
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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
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