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I always write a story in one sitting.
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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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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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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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.
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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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We are born knowing death.
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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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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
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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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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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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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It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.
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We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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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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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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