Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
- Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.
- God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
- Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
- The thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head.
- 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.
- The boys ate warily, trying not to be seen or heard, the cornbread sticking, the buttermilk gurgling, as it went down their gullets.
- She wished to sit down quietly and wait for her death, but not until she had cut the throats of her man and that girl who were laughing and kissing under the cornstalks.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was an American writer known for her short stories, essays, and novels. She was born in Indian Creek, Texas, and grew up in poverty, moving frequently with her family. Porter worked as a teacher, journalist, and actress before turning to writing full-time.
Her best-known works include the short story collections “Flowering Judas” (1930) and “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (1939), and the novel “Ship of Fools” (1962). Porter’s writing often explored themes of love, loss, betrayal, and the complexities of human relationships, and she was known for her sharp wit and keen observation.
Porter was recognized with numerous literary awards and honors during her lifetime, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was also a Guggenheim fellow and served as the first female vice president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Today, she is considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.
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