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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
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
Words
Mean
Something
Respectful

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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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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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We are born knowing death.
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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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I work whenever I'm let.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.
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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 want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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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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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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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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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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