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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin,…
— Oscar Romero
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All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
— Tony Snow
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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
— Doris Lessing
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...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
— Anthony Burgess
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the…
— Winston Churchill
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All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or…
— Robert Zoellick
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I believe the real sin is when we hurt one another with violence, rape and molestation.
— AmyD
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There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
— Doris Lessing
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