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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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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Indian Creek
Texas
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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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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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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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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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I always write a story in one sitting.
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In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.
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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 do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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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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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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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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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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You waste life when you waste good food.
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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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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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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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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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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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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
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