Katherine Anne Porter Quotes - Page 4

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

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Erotic, Noses, Faces

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

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• A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Style, Would Be, Behind You

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

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• In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Bread, Action

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.840, Library of America

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• I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pulled myself out by the hair and went to Madrid...Madrid is a lovely enchanting city, and there was almost ready for me a kind of penthouse full of sunlight, a roof garden, and so on. I gave one look at it all, returned to the hotel and went to bed and wept bitterly for eleven hours...Why? Because I had seen Paris and could not endure the thought of being anywhere else.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Garden, Cities, Paris

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• We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  College, People, World

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Fighting, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

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  Trouble, Fury, Knows

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.179, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Education, Taken, Hands

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.148, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Now and again thousands of memories
  converge, harmonize,
  arrange themselves around a central idea
  in a coherent form,
  and I write a story.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.827, Library of America

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• We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

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  Family, Past, Ties

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.948, Library of America

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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.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, People, Crafts

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• We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Fool, Trouble

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “The Leaning Tower and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.114, Library of America

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• I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Self, Leaving, Anorexia

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.81, Library of America

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• I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

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  Believe, Love Is, Light

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• But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Death, Fate, Men

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• Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.

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  Children, Smell, Color

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.384, Library of America

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• Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

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  Evil, Dull, Worst

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.921, Library of America

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• . . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Loss, Together, Disaster

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.80, Library of America

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• I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Hands, World, Want

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.83, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Husband, Freedom, Men

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• I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Hair, Style

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.

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  Future, Hands, Years

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.370, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• words can never get at the truth.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Truth

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• I work whenever I'm let.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Book, House

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

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