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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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You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your…
— Noel Coward
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.…
— Karl Popper
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of…
— Constanze Mozart
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I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the…
— Carl Lewis
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The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion…
— Mark Salzman
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly…
— Charles Baxter
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Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
— Martha Graham
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