"Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A……" — Katherine Anne Porter
"Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die."
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51 Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
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- 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.
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