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

Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

Topics: Im Me Quotes

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is...

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

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

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

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

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship...

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship...

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even...

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even...

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end...

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end...

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even...

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even...

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

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

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even...

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even...

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have...

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have...

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the...

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the...

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally...

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not...

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love...

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love...