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I work whenever I'm let.

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
Whenever
Work

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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have 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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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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The past is never where you think you left it.
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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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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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We are born knowing death.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.
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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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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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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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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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