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“We are born knowing death.”

Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

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Katherine Anne Porter

American journalist, novelist, and essayist, known for her profound psychological portraits and unique narrative style. Porter, born in Texas, often explored the relationship between individuals and society, as well as themes of morality and religion in her works. Her notable works include 'The Ship of Fools' and 'The Gate of Heaven'. more

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“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.”

Whole Hands Care Energy Education Rich Taken Politician Waste Thirds Rate University Core Wasting Time Scholar Rotten

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.”

Evil Worst Dull

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.”

Men Should Mind Firsts Humans Kind Art Different Asks Type Experience Damn Different Kinds Rooted Human Experience Validity

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.”

Ifs Faces Members Noses Erotic Positively Unruly Impressionable

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.”

Remember Freedom Liberty

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.”

Knows Years Stills Hands Next Future Mouths Paid Delusion Day To Day Next Year Nickels

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.”

Knows Done Government Evil Expectations Committed Expected Cruelty Good And Evil Virtuous Destroyers

Book:Collected stories and other writings

Source: Collected stories and other writings

“If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.”

Ifs Needs Believe May Ends Hard Hate Waiting Doubt Love You I Hate Instruction Again And Again Hate You I Hate You Say I Love You Hard To Believe Provoked

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.”

People Thinking Way Humans Two Hard Done Interesting Race Horrible Confusion Human Race

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter