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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
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Indian Creek
Texas
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In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.
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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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I always write a story in one sitting.
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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
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Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
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Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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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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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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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 was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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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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The past is never where you think you left it.
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Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.
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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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We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
Katherine Anne Porter
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.
Katherine Anne Porter
