Katherine Anne Porter Trying Quotations

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.