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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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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

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"We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced."

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"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."
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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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"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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"Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it."
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"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
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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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"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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