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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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His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a…
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It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.
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When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua…
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The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes…
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Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the…
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Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or…
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The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held…
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Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as…
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