Katherine Anne Porter Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Country, Truth

• 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

• I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having to come and fetch me. Once when I was about six, my father came to get me somewhere I'd gone, and he told me later he'd asked me, "Why are you so restless? Why can't you stay here with us?" and I said to him, "I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Children, Father

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