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The State goes on without end in one form or another, built securely on the base of destruction. Nietzsche said: "The State is the coldest of all cold monsters," and the revolutions which destroy or weaken at least one monster bring to birth and growth another.

— 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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