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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 think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare…
— Julie Andrews
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our…
— Salman Rushdie
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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the…
— Peter Elbow
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I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
— Frances Mayes
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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
— Jane Austen
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She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding…
— Jane Austen
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the…
— Alan Watts
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There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
— Henri Matisse
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There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
— Henri Matisse
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Dont dissipate your liveliness on hatred. Dont dissipate your heart from loving. Remember they were only the flicker. Yet youre the flame…
— Alfredo C
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