All Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
- Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to… Adventure
- Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. Defeat
- I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting… Been
- Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. Angel
- I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all… All
- You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being. Create
- And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.… Acrobatics
- 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… All
- 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… Ability
- Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. Anything Else
- There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any… Action
- I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. Afraid
- Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. Childhood
- Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you… Advice
- Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end. End
- I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness, Capital
- I can pray better when I'm comfortable, Better
- I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a… Betrayal
- It is such a relief to be told the truth. Funny
- It's a man's world, and you men can have it. Inspirational
- One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. Courage
- Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. Continually
- They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism… Asceticism
- Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write,… Afraid
- Don't sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you're going. Funny
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