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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge. The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is. You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal. A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Words began fights and words ended them. Words began fights and words ended them.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: At one time or another most of us at the Creek have been suspected of a degree of madness. Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity ... At one time or another most of us at the Creek have been suspected of a degree of madness. Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity ...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Some of the books that provided the richest fare were hidden under unrevealing names, like a rare soul behind a drab face Some of the books that provided the richest fare were hidden under unrevealing names, like a rare soul behind a drab face
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: I'm eating' it quick ... but I'll remember it a long time. I'm eating' it quick ... but I'll remember it a long time.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: It is not that death comes, but that life leaves. It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely again. He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely again.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue. You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: No case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court. No case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Don't go gittin faintified on me. Don't go gittin faintified on me.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished. I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.

--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer. Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her. Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners. Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others. Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion. We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: To comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough. To comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: I'll walk off the rest of my mad. I'll walk off the rest of my mad.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Grandma Hutto's flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets. Grandma Hutto's flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: The truth is artistically fallacious. The truth is artistically fallacious.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: He wrote: Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody. He wrote:
Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead. Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself. Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: He was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as Lem Forrester on a Saturday night. He was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as Lem Forrester on a Saturday night.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards. Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: People in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking. People in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing. Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves. The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Well, son, you cain't go thru life chunkin' things at all the ugly women you meet. Well, son, you cain't go thru life chunkin' things at all the ugly women you meet.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life. It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman. Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind. Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself. The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: You know what I wisht I had, Ma? A pouch like a 'possum, to tote things.The Yearling You know what I wisht I had, Ma? A pouch like a 'possum, to tote things.
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine. I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder. She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known. The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: The inferred is always more effective than the obvious. The inferred is always more effective than the obvious.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes: It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant. It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

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