"Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else."

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Katherine Anne Porter

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Praying Quotes

“O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
“Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”
“The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.”
“Decision is a vastly important thing with a convicted sinner. He must choose, or he must be lost. If he will not do it, he may expect the Divine Spirit to depart from him, and leave him to his own way.”
“I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.”
“I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.”
“I do believe that healing takes place on a number of different levels and that in fact black healing can be deepened by trying to heal across as well as within. But it could be that to call for black and Jewish healing without acknowledging the need for intra-black healing puts the cart before the horse.”
“One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.”

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