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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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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Indian Creek
Texas
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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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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
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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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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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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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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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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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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 have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.
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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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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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You waste life when you waste good food.
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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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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'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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Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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