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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

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
Hate
Must
Needs
Love
Provoked
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Learned
Waiting

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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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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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