| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 45048 |
| QUOTATION: | I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can’t suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980), U.S. novelist and story writer. As quoted in “Contexts” [poem], Epigram, by Irena Klepfisz (1982). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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