All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate. Katherine Anne Porter More Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter More Quotes From Katherine Anne Porter Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end. Katherine Anne Porter endslove Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint. Katherine Anne Porter coatsgenerationspaint Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. Katherine Anne Porter childhoodessentialschildren Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people. Katherine Anne Porter fightingwarorder I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. Katherine Anne Porter anorexialeavingself 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 spiderswindchildren It's a man's world, and you men can have it. Katherine Anne Porter menworld I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything. Katherine Anne Porter lightlove-isbelieve Death is loneliness in its purest form. Katherine Anne Porter formloneliness I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a 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. Katherine Anne Porter betrayalsymbolismreligious Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together. Katherine Anne Porter smellcolorchildren We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard. Katherine Anne Porter collegepeopleworld Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money. Katherine Anne Porter takeneducationhands One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. Katherine Anne Porter markcourage I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways. Katherine Anne Porter unbreakable-bondstogetherway 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 stylehairbelieve I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress. Katherine Anne Porter progresswatchesworld Now and again thousands of memories Katherine Anne Porter writingmemoriesideas God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls. Katherine Anne Porter blacksoulwhite If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too. Katherine Anne Porter leadersuicidebelieve
