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Katherine Anne Porter

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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.


— Katherine Anne Porter


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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.


— Katherine Anne Porter


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Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.


— Katherine Anne Porter


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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.


— Katherine Anne Porter


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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.


— Katherine Anne Porter


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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.


— Katherine Anne Porter


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Henry was her father's second cousin. "Noon Wine" was made into an hour drama in early 1948 and two years later "Flowering Judas" and "Pale Horse Pale Rider" each were produced in half-hour dramas on an episode of the hour long program. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal death and the origin of human evil.

Katherine Anne Porter (May 15 1890 – September 18 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist essayist short story writer novelist and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. In 1990 Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 2905 was placed in Brown County Texas to honor the life and career of Porter.

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