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Katherine Anne Porter Quotes: A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
         

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.


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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.



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This page presents the quote "A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.". Author of this quote is Katherine Anne Porter. This quote is about love, spiders, wind, like something, children,.