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Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

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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.

Source: In Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1963.
-- Katherine Anne Porter, (May 15 1894-1980), US novelist, short-story writer; She was a master stylist of texture and complexity of character delineation; won Pulitzer, 1966, for her only full length novel Ship of Fools.


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