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Katherine Anne Porter quotes

American Journalist May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980

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Katherine Anne Porter quote: "[From Old Mortality]The woman in the picture. . . was only a..."
[From Old Mortality]The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times. Katherine Anne Porter
[From The Old Order]The Grandmother always treated her animal friends as if they were human beings temporarily metamorphosed . . . Katherine Anne Porter
At that time I was too young for some of the troubles I was having, and I had not yet learned what to do with them. It no longer can matter what kind of troubles they were, or what finally became of them, though all my tradition, background, and training had taught me unanswerably that no one except a coward ever runs away from anything. What nonsense! They should have taught me the difference between courage and foolhardiness, instead of leaving me to find it out for myself. I learned... Katherine Anne Porter
The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new terror, the bones rebel at each step, the mind sets up its own bitter resistance and to what end? The barriers sink one by one, and no covering of the eyes shuts out the landscape of disaster, nor the sight of crimes committed there. Katherine Anne Porter
[From Flowering Judas]She is, her comrades tell her, full of romantic error, for what she defines as cynicism in them is merely 'a developed sense of reality'. Katherine Anne Porter
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees..."
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and..."
the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "[From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]The road to death is a long march..."
[From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . . Katherine Anne Porter
The whole effort for the past one hundred years has been to remove the moral responsibility from the individual and make him blame his own human wickedness on his society, but he helps to make his society, you see, and he will not take his responsibility for his part in it. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "Death always leaves one singer to mourn."
Death always leaves one singer to mourn. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "The past is never where you think you left it."
The past is never where you think you left it. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed..."
Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were. Katherine Anne Porter
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to..."
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. Katherine Anne Porter

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