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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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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.
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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.
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The past is never where you think you left it.
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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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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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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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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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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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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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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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we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
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Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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