"I get so tired of moral bookkeeping." — Katherine Anne Porter
"I get so tired of moral bookkeeping."
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Katherine Anne Porter
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51 Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
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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 Bookkeeping Quotes
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You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver…
— Charlie Munger
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Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence…
— Herbert J. Muller
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Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
— Dee Hock
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For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense…
— Peter Medawar
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Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.
— Robin S
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To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems…
— Cliff Shaw
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Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a…
— Thomas Berry
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Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old,…
— Howard Rheingold
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