Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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
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.
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
--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody
Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.
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.
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.
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.
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.