If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share
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