Katherine Anne Porter Quotes about Fate

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All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

Katherine Anne Porter

Fate, Political, Politics

Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

Katherine Anne Porter

Death, Fate, Men

I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled. In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.

Katherine Anne Porter

Philosophy, Fate, Ideas

"Silences". Book by Tillie Olsen, 2014.

Katherine Anne Porter Quotes about Fate

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