Katherine Anne Porter Quotes - Page 6

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• [On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Reading, People, Doubt

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.663, Library of America

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• Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Imagination, Perception

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.833, Library of America

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• There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Knowledge, Two, People

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.667, Library of America

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• With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Arms, Necks, Infinite

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