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

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Love, Ends

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.939, Library of America

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• we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Government, Evil, Expectations

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.

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  Suicide, Thinking, Giving

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.94, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

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  World, Want, Wilderness

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

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  Beauty, Real, Careers

  1962 Ship of Fools, pt.3.

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• I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

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  Progress, Watches, World

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• You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Style

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Tired, Moral, Bookkeeping

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.337, Open Road Media

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• Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Character, Angel, Miracle

  Ship of Fools pt. 3 (1962)

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• You waste life when you waste good food.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Waste, Good Food

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.104, Library of America

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• We are born knowing death.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Knowing, Born

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• Death is loneliness in its purest form.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Loneliness, Form

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.490, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

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  Real, Men, Secret

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.944, Library of America

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• Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Self, Development, Want

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• I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

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  Passion, Writing, Desire

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

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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.

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  College, People, World

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

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• If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

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  Suicide, Believe, Leader

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• 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.

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  Running, Country, Truth

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• I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

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  Writing, Thinking, Water

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• I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.

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  Religious, Betrayal, Symbolism

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• Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

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  Children, Childhood, Essentials

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.650, Library of America

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• A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

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  Symphony, Instruments, Novel

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Falling In Love, Love You, Writing

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• One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.

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  Sex, Views, People

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• I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Years, Biographies, Personal History

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.650, Library of America

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