"Love is purely a creation of the human……" — Katherine Anne Porter
"Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits."
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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 Continually Quotes
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
— Paul Auster
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
— Drew Barrymore
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United…
— Joe Barton
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in…
— Annie Besant
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to…
— Samuel Butler
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
— Willa Cather
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
— Bernie Siegel
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