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

— Katherine Anne Porter

"Old Mortality" in Pale Horse (1939)
Context: I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world any longer, she told herself, listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance.

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American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist… 1890–1980

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