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

— Katherine Anne Porter 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.

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.

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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