Author: Katherine Anne Porter

Quotes

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

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

- Katherine Anne Porter

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

- Katherine Anne Porter

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Katherine Anne Porter

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