Katherine Anne Porter Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Katherine Anne Porter:

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.

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

Katherine Anne Porter

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.

Katherine Anne Porter

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Katherine Anne Porter

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.

Katherine Anne Porter

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.

Katherine Anne Porter

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

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

Katherine Anne Porter

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

Katherine Anne Porter

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Katherine Anne Porter

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

Katherine Anne Porter

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

Katherine Anne Porter

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Katherine Anne Porter