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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?
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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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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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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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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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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