"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."

Katherine Anne Porter, American Journalist

People, Writing

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"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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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."

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