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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.

~Katherine Anne Porter

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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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It is such a relief to be told the truth.

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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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It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 15th, 1890

Died: September 18th, 1980

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