Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

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

Tags

Noticed | Life | Dissipation | Gave | Face |

comments powered by Disqus

Random

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence. - 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

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