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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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While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger…
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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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You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you…
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I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.
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I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good…
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I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the…
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My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
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I've had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones…
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God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest…
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The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy…
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