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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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California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the…
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Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives,…
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The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
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I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the…
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This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men…
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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