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

— Katherine Anne Porter On her novel Ship of Fools (1962)

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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.

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.

There is the frightful possibility in all such trials as these that the judgment has already been pronounced and the trial is just a mask for murder.

The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

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