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Katherine Anne Porter Quotes: Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.
         

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.


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The past is never where you think you left it.

The past is never where you think you left it.



Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.



You waste life when you waste good food.

You waste life when you waste good food.



You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.



Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.



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.

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.



What we need now is endless courage.

What we need now is endless courage.



Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.



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

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



I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.





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Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.



I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.



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Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.



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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.



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I don't like the idea of famous people.



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My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.

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