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Simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy. — Marjorie Holmes

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

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end. — Marjorie Spiegel

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

When a dead man knocks on the car window, I think fainting is a reasonable response. — Marjorie F. Baldwin

Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus! — Marjorie Grene

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. — Jane Yolen

Words began fights and words ended them. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life. — Marjorie M. Liu

But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn. — Marjorie M. Liu

The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life! — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. — Marjorie Garber

Don't believe anything anyone tells you. You have to evaluate the world with your own eyes. — Marjorie Celona

With intellectual curiosity the world will always be full of magic and wonder. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory. — Marjorie Holmes

I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ... — Marjorie Fleming

At Christmas, all roads lead home. — Marjorie Holmes

Not the being lost, but the being found. It was the same feeling he got whenever he saw Marjorie. Like she had, somehow, found him. Months — Yaa Gyasi

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live. — Marjorie M. Liu

Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes. — Marjorie Fleming

Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with. — Marjorie Fleming

An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of. — Marjorie Fleming

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. — Marjorie Garber

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that. — Marjorie M. Liu

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers. — Marjorie Hillis

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'. — Marjorie Scardino

Would you like some more pancakes? Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to eat on the job. But I must keep up my strength. — Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

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

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking. — Marjorie Fleming

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

Death is the perfect knowing. — Marjorie Holmes

The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes

I have seen enough for two lifetimes. Maybe three, but I was very drunk at the time. -Marjorie Liu, The Tangleroot Palace — Laurell K. Hamilton

I have my hair done by Valery Joseph, who does a version of the Palm Beach crash helmet so that it doesn't move. — Marjorie Gubelmann

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

The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked. — Marjorie Fleming

You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said.
"No," Nick said. — Ernest Hemingway,

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind. — Marjorie M. Liu

I'm eating' it quick ... but I'll remember it a long time. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

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. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Miri forced herself to remain very still. Never run from immortals, she remembered; her favorite line from a favorite movie. Never run. — Marjorie M. Liu

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam. — Marjorie Fleming

Creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

There are varieties of uncertainty that are more illuminating, and even more enjoyable, than certainty. — Marjorie Howes

one of Marjorie's boats, they were inevitably — Nancy Rubin Stuart

Go ahead, say it. Crazy. Right? Your daughter was going crazy. So why not stop at church? Makes perfect sense to me." "Marjorie — Paul Tremblay

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

The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The inferred is always more effective than the obvious. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

If she would give the world what it wanted, it would deify her. — Marjorie Rosen

Silence is the friend of the fool. — Marjorie Swift Doering

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

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring. — Marjorie Hillis

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

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

It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King. — Marjorie Bowen

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory. — Marjorie Garber

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

Poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God. — Marjorie Holmes

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

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

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself. — Marjorie Bowen

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

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

Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living. — Marjorie Bowen

OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life. — Marjorie Dannenfelser

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

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me. — Marjorie Holmes

Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

There's more hunger in the world than love. — Marjorie M. Liu

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that. — Marjorie Grene

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen. — Marjorie M. Liu

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance. — Marjorie Hillis

In Newport, we serve cheese or bacon-wrapped water chestnuts. — Marjorie Gubelmann

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case. — Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade. — Marjorie M. Liu

For it is not requisite that a woman should hobble faster than she has strength! — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable. — Marjorie Holmes

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well. — Marjorie Holmes

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

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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

Flatteru is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return — Marjorie Bowen

I'm a person who floats in many different groups. — Marjorie Gubelmann

The truth is artistically fallacious. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. — Marjorie Holmes