"Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we……" — Katherine Anne Porter
"Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good."
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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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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ...…
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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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More Childhood Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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