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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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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
— James A. Baldwin
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A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not…
— Unknown Author
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Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a…
— Kate Chopin
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The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
— Charles Spurgeon
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If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will…
— Epictetus
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Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time,…
— Brian Jacques
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But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
— William Shakespeare
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The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground.…
— Confucius
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely…
— Confucius
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