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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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Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high.…
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Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all…
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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.
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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam…
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Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?"…
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Don't take this the wrong way," Blue replied. Her cheeks felt a little warm, but she was well into this conversation and…
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I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the…
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Heart turned to me, his face thoughtful. “Yesterday morning. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn’t been home for two days before that.”…
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Me: the bell rang I can go // teacher: excuse you the bible said Adam and eve not Adam and leave
— Ream
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