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Katherine Anne Porter quotes

American Journalist May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980

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Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you. 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. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own Katherine Anne Porter
Now I must get up and go while they are all quiet. Where are my things? Things have a will of their own in this place and hide where they like. Daylight will strike a sudden blow on the roof startling them all up to their feet; faces will beam asking, Where are you going, What are you doing, What are you thinking, How do you feel, Why do you say such things, What do you mean? No more sleep. Where are are my boots and what horse shall I ride? Fiddler or Graylie or Miss Lucy with the long nose... Katherine Anne Porter
Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?"I love to swim, too." said Adam."So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together. Katherine Anne Porter
...without disturbing the radiance which played and darted about the simple and lovely miracle of being two persons named Adam and Miranda, twenty four years old each, alive and on earth at the same moment: 'Are you in the mood for dancing?' and 'I'm always in the mood for dancing, Adam!' but there were things in the way, the day that ended with dancing was a long way to go. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "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. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end."
Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end. Katherine Anne Porter
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child. 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 for its well-being. Katherine Anne Porter
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
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "You waste life when you waste good food."
You waste life when you waste good food. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "[From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall]You waste life when you..."
[From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall]You waste life when you waste good food. Katherine Anne Porter
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. Katherine Anne Porter
...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched... 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 that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. Katherine Anne Porter

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