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Martha Ostenso quotes: A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

Martha Ostenso quotes: It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

Martha Ostenso quotes: Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Martha Ostenso quotes: But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

Martha Ostenso quotes: The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ...

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ...

Martha Ostenso quotes: Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

Martha Ostenso quotes: The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life ...

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life ...

Martha Ostenso quotes: Time passed so much more slowly than space.

Time passed so much more slowly than space.

Martha Ostenso quotes: Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

Martha Ostenso quotes: Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Martha Ostenso quotes: There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

Martha Ostenso quotes: I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin' ...

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin' ...

Martha Ostenso quotes: Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

Martha Ostenso quotes: Work did not destroy the loneliness; work was only a fog in which they moved so that they might not see the loneliness of each other

Work did not destroy the loneliness; work was only a fog in which they moved so that they might not see the loneliness of each other

Martha Ostenso quotes: By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

Martha Ostenso quotes: Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

Martha Ostenso quotes: There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear ...

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear ...

Martha Ostenso quotes: A false vision was better than none.

A false vision was better than none.

Martha Ostenso quotes: There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Martha Ostenso quotes: The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

Martha Ostenso quotes: You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.