"If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace."

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Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Katherine Anne Porter

#Writing Quotes #Goal Quotes #Grace Quotes

“When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.”
“Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.”
“Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.”

Source : "Deadnought: Britain, Germany and the Comiing of the Great War". Book by Robert K. Massie, letter to former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, 1991.
“Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.”
“Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.”
“There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.”
“Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential.”

Source : Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”
“I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.”

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