Katherine Anne Porter Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Katherine Anne Porter quotes and sayings (journalist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.”
“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.”
“Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.”
“I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.”
“Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.”
“Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.”
“It is such a relief to be told the truth.”
“Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.”
“They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.”
“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
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