Katherine Anne Porter Quotes - Page 6

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• Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Military, Should Have, Law

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

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• I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having to come and fetch me. Once when I was about six, my father came to get me somewhere I'd gone, and he told me later he'd asked me, "Why are you so restless? Why can't you stay here with us?" and I said to him, "I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Children, Father

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• Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Imagination, Perception

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.833, Library of America

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• Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Infidelity, Fidelity, Signals

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