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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
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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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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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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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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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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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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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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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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You waste life when you waste good food.
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Mexican writer and diplomat, Pasado en claro (A Draft of Shadows) You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
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I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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I work whenever I'm let.
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There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
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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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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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