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Katherine Anne Porter

"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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"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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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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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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"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."
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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."
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"It is such a relief to be told the truth."
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"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."
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"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
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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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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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