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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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
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Indian Creek
Texas
Respectful
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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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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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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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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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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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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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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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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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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
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I work whenever I'm let.
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We are born knowing death.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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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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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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