Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.
I work whenever I'm let. - Katherine Anne Porter
I work whenever I'm let.
- Katherine Anne Porter
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchang… - Katherine Anne Porter
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchang…
Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint. - Katherine Anne Porter
Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction. - Katherine Anne Porter
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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. - 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.
All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of br… - Katherine Anne Porter
All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of br…
If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes i… - Katherine Anne Porter
If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes i…
You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going. - Katherine Anne Porter
You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.
The past is never where you think you left it. - Katherine Anne Porter
The past is never where you think you left it.
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