“[From Pale Horse, Pale Rider ] The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . .” — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“[From Old Mortality ] The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“She wished to sit down quietly and wait for her death, but not until she had cut the throats of her man… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Shut your eyes,” said Miss Tanner. “Oh no,” said Miranda, “for then I see worse things…” — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find George.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Bells Screamed all off key, wrangling together as they collided in midair, horns and whistles mingled shrilly with cries of human distress;… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
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… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
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