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Katherine Anne Porter quotes about life

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
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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