Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
katherine anne porter
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 ...
katherine anne porter
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
katherine anne porter
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
katherine anne porter
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 ...
katherine anne porter
A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone ...
katherine anne porter
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and ...
katherine anne porter
It is a man's world, and you men can have it.
katherine anne porter
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can ...
