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She finally came to admit sadly that the human race in its weakness demanded government and all government was evil because human nature was basically weak and weakness is evil.

— Katherine Anne Porter The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

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I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themeselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Ship of Fools (1962)

I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself.

I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul.

On her novel Ship of Fools (1962)

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

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