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• Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Love Is, Imagination, Important

  "Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings".

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• Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Giving Up, Real

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Fate, Political, Politics

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Action, Fulfilled, Fourth

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Doe, Engagement, Consequence

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.83, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Motivation, Motive, Synonym

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• I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Thumbprints, Individual, Petite

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• There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Suicide, Thinking, Giving

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.94, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Paris, Mourning

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• I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  World, Want, Wilderness

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Freedom, People, Dangerous

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.991, Library of America

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• God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  White, Soul, Black

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.423, Library of America

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• Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Two, Trying, Energy

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.116, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Wind, Spiders

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• who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Success, Struggle, Stories

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.685, Library of America

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• One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Courage, Mark

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Government, Evil, Expectations

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Feelings, Individuality, Trying

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Writing, Years

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Progress, Watches, World

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• It is such a relief to be told the truth.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Relief

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.980, Library of America

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• You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Style

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Love, Ends

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.939, Library of America

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• The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Beauty, Real, Careers

  1962 Ship of Fools, pt.3.

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• Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Men, Secret

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.944, Library of America

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