The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members. Katherine Anne Porter More Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter More Quotes From Katherine Anne Porter We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools. Katherine Anne Porter fool trouble running Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it. Katherine Anne Porter demand doe writing I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand. Katherine Anne Porter want hands world First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do. Katherine Anne Porter first-impression credit firsts It is such a relief to be told the truth. Katherine Anne Porter relief . . . 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 disaster together loss There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive. Katherine Anne Porter synonym motive motivation We pity people too often for the wrong reasons. Katherine Anne Porter pity reason people I work whenever I'm let. Katherine Anne Porter Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life. Katherine Anne Porter consequence engagement doe It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything. Katherine Anne Porter writing war country Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. Katherine Anne Porter fidelity signals infidelity Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something. Katherine Anne Porter giving-up real art Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds. Katherine Anne Porter real secret men I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having to come and fetch me. Once when I was about six, my father came to get me somewhere I'd gone, and he told me later he'd asked me, "Why are you so restless? Why can't you stay here with us?" and I said to him, "I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand. Katherine Anne Porter running father children [Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature. Katherine Anne Porter human-nature humans white Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity. Katherine Anne Porter dangerous freedom people 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. Katherine Anne Porter behind-you style would-be There are so many things that 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. Katherine Anne Porter fourth fulfilled action I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness. Katherine Anne Porter wilderness want world
