Katherine Anne Porter Quotes - Page 4

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• Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  War, Fighting, Order

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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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• A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Style, Would Be, Behind You

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

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• We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  People, Pity, Reason

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.591, Library of America

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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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• Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Husband, Freedom, Men

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• Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Infidelity, Fidelity, Signals

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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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• 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 the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Bread, Action

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.840, Library of America

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• I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pulled myself out by the hair and went to Madrid...Madrid is a lovely enchanting city, and there was almost ready for me a kind of penthouse full of sunlight, a roof garden, and so on. I gave one look at it all, returned to the hotel and went to bed and wept bitterly for eleven hours...Why? Because I had seen Paris and could not endure the thought of being anywhere else.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Garden, Cities, Paris

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Beautiful, Skins, Modesty

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.125, 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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• . . . 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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• I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Hands, World, Want

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.83, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Hair, Style

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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