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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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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
French
Interested
Call
Individual
Thumbprint
Thumbprints
Specialize
Petite

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Mexican writer and diplomat, Pasado en claro (A Draft of Shadows) You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
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You waste life when you waste good food.
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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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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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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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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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The past is never where you think you left it.
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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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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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I work whenever I'm let.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.
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It's a man's world, and you men can have 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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Writing does not exclude the full life it demands it.
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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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I always write a story in one sitting.
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Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
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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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