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You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.

Katherine Anne Porter
Mistake, Heart, Eye
Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.34, Atlantic Monthly Press

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

Katherine Anne Porter
Taken, Heart, Mind
Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.270, Library of America

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

Katherine Anne Porter
Heart, Men, Two
The Nation, August 31, 1927.

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