Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about… — 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
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. — 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… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people… — 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
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to… — 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 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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