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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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I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.
— Sandra Bullock
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And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad,…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of…
— Doug Hepburn
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I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have…
— Cherie Piper
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The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
— Epicurus
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I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to…
— Michael Phelps
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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…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers…
— Drew Barrymore
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The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
— Kin Hubbard
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I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge…
— Bob Beamon
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Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything…
— Twyla Tharp
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Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club…
— Scott McClanahan
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