"And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit……" — Katherine Anne Porter
"And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step. ... When virtuosity gets the upper hand of your theme, or is better than your idea, it is time to quit."
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51 Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter has 51 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least…
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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…
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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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Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the…
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Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us…
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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…
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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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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then…
— Ludmilla Tourischeva
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The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the…
— David Belle
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Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.
— Ogyu Sorai
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I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
— Betsey Johnson
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"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology.…
— Kanye West
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Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention…
— Nalini Singh
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God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.
— Elizabeth Wein
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the…
— Agnes de Mille
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We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics...
— La Meri
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
— Cameron Monaghan
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
— Malaika Arora Khan
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