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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Indian Creek
Texas
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Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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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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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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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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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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Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.
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