"Defeat in this world is no disgrace if……" — Katherine Anne Porter

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and… - Katherine Anne Porter

"Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing."

— Katherine Anne Porter

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51 Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience…
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than…
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least…
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was…
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ...…
Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the…
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us…
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so…
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges… — Michelle Bachelet
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to… — Michele Bachmann
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. — Russell Baker
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their… — Conrad Black
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be… — Tony Blair
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until… — Bjorn Borg
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to… — Abdallah II
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the… — Bertolt Brecht
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to… — Robert Browning

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