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Letter "K" » Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
«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.»
«Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
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no end
«I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.»
«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 who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.»
«Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
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Experience
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in the long run, long run, overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, The Long Run
«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 even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
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asserted, asserts, Chaos, cycle, cycles, cycle on, cycling, evening star, mistaking, motives, movement, seasons, stance, The Movement, The Seasons, turning
«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.»
«Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
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Infidelity
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fidelities, infidelities, infidelity, signal, undermined, undermines, undermining
«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 understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
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appeal, implication, implications, jargon, jargon of, meanings, purely, textbook, textbooks, write about, written language
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