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I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

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.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

Words began fights and words ended them.

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 ...

Some of the books that provided the richest fare were hidden under unrevealing names, like a rare soul behind a drab face

I'm eating' it quick ... but I'll remember it a long time.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

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.

You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

No case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

Don't go gittin faintified on me.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.

To comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

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.

I'll walk off the rest of my mad.

Grandma Hutto's flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

The truth is artistically fallacious.

He wrote:
Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

He was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as Lem Forrester on a Saturday night.

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.

People in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

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.

Well, son, you cain't go thru life chunkin' things at all the ugly women you meet.

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

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.

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.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

You know what I wisht I had, Ma? A pouch like a 'possum, to tote things.
The Yearling

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

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.

The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.

The inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

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.