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I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

Katherine Anne Porter

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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
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Indian Creek
Texas
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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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There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.
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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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You waste life when you waste good food.
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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 always write a story in one sitting.
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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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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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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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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
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There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
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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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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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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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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.
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