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Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
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I have not much interest in anyone’s personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Most people won’t realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Don’t sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you’re going (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
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 (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn’t trouble to write anything (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
We do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in... tiresome acrobatics... Flashy effects distract the mind. They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step... When virtuosity gets the upper hand of your theme, or is better than your idea, it is time to quit (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate (Katherine Anne Porter Quotes)