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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
Respectful
Words
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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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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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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You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.
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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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We are born knowing death.
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A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
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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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I always write a story in one sitting.
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If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
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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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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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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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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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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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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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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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With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.
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