Katherine Anne Porter Quotes - Page 3

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• I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Tired, Moral, Bookkeeping

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.337, Open Road Media

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• We are born knowing death.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Knowing, Born

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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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• Death is loneliness in its purest form.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Loneliness, Form

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.490, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• You waste life when you waste good food.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Waste, Good Food

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.104, Library of America

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• I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Passion, Writing, Desire

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

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  Self, Development, Want

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• I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Thinking, Water

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• If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Suicide, Believe, Leader

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• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Stars, Order, Feelings

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

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  Men, World

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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 is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

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  Running, Country, Truth

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• I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.

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  Religious, Betrayal, Symbolism

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• Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Failure, World, Defeat

  "Recent Southern fiction: a panel discussion".

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• Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

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  Games, Weather, Life Is

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.277, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

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  Children, Childhood, Essentials

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.650, Library of America

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• A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

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  Symphony, Instruments, Novel

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

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  Falling In Love, Love You, Writing

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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 going to be was all prepared before that.

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  Years, Biographies, Personal History

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.650, Library of America

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• One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.

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  Sex, Views, People

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• What we need is endless courage.

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  Needs, Endless

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• We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

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  People, Pity, Reason

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.591, Library of America

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• Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

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  War, Fighting, Order

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• Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.

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  Art, Men, Mind

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.34, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

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  Erotic, Noses, Faces

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.915, Library of America

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