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. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.
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
Missed
Twice
Remembered
Disaster
Loss
Lost
Landslide
Together
Landslides
Losses
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.
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Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?
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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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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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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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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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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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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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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
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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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I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
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I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.
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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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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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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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