Katherine Anne Porter Quotes - Page 4

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• Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Failure, World, Defeat

  "Recent Southern fiction: a panel discussion".

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• We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  College, People, World

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Men, Mind

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.34, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Fighting, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Trouble, Fury, Knows

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.179, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Education, Taken, Hands

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.148, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Now and again thousands of memories
  converge, harmonize,
  arrange themselves around a central idea
  in a coherent form,
  and I write a story.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.827, Library of America

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• We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Family, Past, Ties

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.948, Library of America

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• Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, People, Crafts

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• We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Fool, Trouble

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “The Leaning Tower and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.114, Library of America

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• I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Self, Leaving, Anorexia

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.81, Library of America

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• I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Love Is, Light

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• But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Death, Fate, Men

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• Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Smell, Color

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.384, Library of America

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• Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Evil, Dull, Worst

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.921, Library of America

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• advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Future, Hands, Years

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.370, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Erotic, Noses, Faces

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.915, Library of America

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• In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Book, Loss, Journey

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.80, Library of America

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• words can never get at the truth.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Truth

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• I work whenever I'm let.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Death, Mexican, Shadow

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• I always write a story in one sitting.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Sitting, Stories

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Pain, Thinking

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• All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Book, House

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• . . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Loss, Together, Disaster

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.80, Library of America

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