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I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint. — Katherine Anne Porter

Death is loneliness in its purest form ... — Katherine Anne Porter

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet. — Katherine Anne Porter

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water. — Katherine Anne Porter

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were. — Katherine Anne Porter

I can pray better when I'm comfortable, — Katherine Anne Porter

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint. — Katherine Anne Porter

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. — Katherine Anne Porter

Words can never get at the truth. — Katherine Anne Porter

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

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress. — Katherine Anne Porter

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it. — Katherine Anne Porter

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you. — Katherine Anne Porter

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ... — Katherine Anne Porter

It's a man's world, and you men can have it. — Katherine Anne Porter

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather ... — Katherine Anne Porter

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it ... — Katherine Anne Porter

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore. — Katherine Anne Porter

[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

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls. — Katherine Anne Porter

You waste life when you waste good food. — Katherine Anne Porter

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life. — Katherine Anne Porter

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. — Katherine Anne Porter

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter

Death always leaves one singer to mourn. — Katherine Anne Porter

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work. — Katherine Anne Porter

What we need now is endless courage. — Katherine Anne Porter

Who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story. — Katherine Anne Porter

We know that the Furies do not come uninvited. — Katherine Anne Porter

The boys ate warily, trying not to be seen or heard, the cornbread sticking, the buttermilk gurgling, as it went down their gullets. — Katherine Anne Porter

I always write a story in one sitting. — Katherine Anne Porter

All that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses. — Katherine Anne Porter

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ... — Katherine Anne Porter

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on. — Katherine Anne Porter

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness, — Katherine Anne Porter

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members. — Katherine Anne Porter

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter

The thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head. — Katherine Anne Porter

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping. — Katherine Anne Porter

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away. — Katherine Anne Porter

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons. — Katherine Anne Porter

Be respectful of words. They mean something. — Katherine Anne Porter

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. — Katherine Anne Porter

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. — Katherine Anne Porter

[From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]

The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . . — Katherine Anne Porter

The past is never where you think you left it. — Katherine Anne Porter

I work whenever I'm let. — Katherine Anne Porter

Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die. — Katherine Anne Porter

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. — 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

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. — Katherine Anne Porter

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end. — Katherine Anne Porter

What we need is endless courage. — Katherine Anne Porter

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature. — Katherine Anne Porter

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last. — Katherine Anne Porter

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination ... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. — Katherine Anne Porter

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it. — Katherine Anne Porter

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that. — Katherine Anne Porter

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. — Katherine Anne Porter

It is such a relief to be told the truth. — Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity. — Katherine Anne Porter

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive. — Katherine Anne Porter

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction. — Katherine Anne Porter

We are born knowing death. — Katherine Anne Porter

Don't sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you're going. — Katherine Anne Porter