23 ordspråk av Katherine Anne Porter

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Katherine Anne Porter föddes den 15 mai 1890 och dog den 18 september 1980 - US writer
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Jag ska försöka berätta sanningen, men resultatet blir fiktion.

Skrive

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Erfaring

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

It is such a relief to be told the truth

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.

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.

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Utroskap

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.

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.

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.

Liv

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

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