Quotes by Porter, Katherine Anne

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargo >>

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, >>

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many thi >>

Quotations about Dissipation

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. >>

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging thems >>

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a f >>

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.

Porter, Katherine Anne