Katherine Anne Porter Short Quotes

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We know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

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I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul.

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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

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Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

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Let me be happy in your happiness, in which I believe most firmly.

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Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

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I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

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No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

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God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

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

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He was the worst kind of rich American, the kind who pretended to be poor.

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Who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

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

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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

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

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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do...

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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

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

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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.

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It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously.

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Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

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The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

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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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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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I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

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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 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 mind and the heart sometimes get another chance, but if anything happens to the poor old human frame, why, it's just out of luck, that's all.

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