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Hal Porter

"The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so."

Source : Hal Porter, Mary Lord (1980). “Hal Porter”, Univ of Queensland Pr

Hal Porter

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“In the UK, everything is a bit older and a bit more worn-out, and the people are a bit more tired. You know. I think Americans are a bit looser, a bit more out to have a fun time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?”
“Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.”
“I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.121, Open Road Media
“Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.”
“A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.”
“My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.”
“The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle),”

Source : "Ask the Rabbis // How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?". www.momentmag.com. February 6, 2013.

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