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Katherine Anne Porter Quotes: You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.
         

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.


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Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.



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You waste life when you waste good food.



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You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.



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Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.



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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.



What we need now is endless courage.

What we need now is endless courage.



Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.



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This page presents the quote "You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.". Author of this quote is Katherine Anne Porter. This quote is about broken heart, eye, mistake, enough, sock, sometimes, experience, heart,.