Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

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

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

#Experience

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

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

#Katherine Anne Porter

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

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

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

#Katherine Anne Porter

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

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It is such a relief to be told the truth.

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

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

#Katherine Anne Porter

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

#Katherine Anne Porter