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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do...
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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.
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Who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.
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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.
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The quarrel between them was a terrible treadmill they mounted together and tramped round and round until they were wearied out or in despair.
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The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.
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In the reckless phrase of the confirmed joiner in the fight for whatever relief oppressed humanity was fighting for, I had volunteered "to be useful wherever and however I could best serve," and was drafted into a Communist outfit all unknowing; this no doubt because my name was on the list of contributors to funds in aid of Sacco and Vanzetti for several years. Even from Mexico, I sent what bits of money I could, when I could, to whatever group solicited at the moment: I never inquired as to the shades of political belief because that was not what was important to me in that cause, which concerned common humanity.
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We know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things 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.
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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
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What if her father and mother could not recognize her now if they saw her? In her flesh they slept serenely, loved and loving, not as remembered faces, nor in any arrested act or posture, but as her blood running softly in her veins, as the beat of her heart and the drawing of her breath.
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I think it is the most curious lack of judgment to publish before you are ready. If there are echoes of other people in your work, you're not ready. If anybody has to help you rewrite your story, you're not ready. A story should be a finished work before it is shown.
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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.... to follow it you very often have to give up something.
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You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart...
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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.
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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...
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Let me be happy in your happiness, in which I believe most firmly.
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Love is purely a creation of the human imagination … the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
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Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.
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He was the worst kind of rich American, the kind who pretended to be poor.
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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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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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.
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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.
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Born:
May 15, 1890
Died:
September 18, 1980
(aged 90)
Bio:
Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.
Known for:
Ship of Fools (1962)
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
Noon Wine
The Leaning Tower: And Other Stories (1944)
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