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Katherine Anne Porter has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what…
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Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But…
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to…
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You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects…
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Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and…
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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…
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Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
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There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that…
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread…
— Ilan Ramon
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I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of…
— Saul Leiter
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I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak…
— Henri Nouwen
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Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The soul is that which beholds beauty even when the mind denies it.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
— Roger Scruton
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
— Milan Kundera
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Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total…
— Jeanette Winterson
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There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I…
— Kristin Cashore
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If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only…
— Gertrude Stein
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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