Famous Katherine Porter Quotations

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"I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have religious training. And I suppose you don't say, I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal, but of course it does."
by Katherine Porter
"Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing."
by Katherine Anne Porter
"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."
by Katherine Anne Porter
"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."
by 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."
by Katherine Anne Porter
"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."
by Katherine Anne Porter
"Love without marriage can sometimes be very awkward for all concerned; but marriage without love simply removes that institution from the terr..."
by Katherine Anne Porter


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