Katherine Anne Porter Quote

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.


Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings (ed. Library of America, 2008) - ISBN: 9781598533279


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...

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...

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...

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...