~ Katherine Anne Porter Quotes ~

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Katherine Anne Porter Quotes


A Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.
Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. In 1990, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 2905 was placed in Brown County, Texas to honor the life and career of Porter.

Here are some famous quotes by Katherine Anne Porter.

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

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

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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never any of us are more than one-fourth fulfilled.