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Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.
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When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.
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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.
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No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
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Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.
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It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.
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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.
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Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.
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Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
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A man'll seem like a person to a woman, year in, year out. She'll put up and she'll put up. Then one day he'll do something maybe no worse than what he's been a-doing all his life. She'll look at him. And without no warning he'll look like a varmint.
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You can tame a bear. You can tame a wild-cat and you can tame a panther.... You can tame anything, son, excusing the human tongue.
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Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.
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They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.
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But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.
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Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
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Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests — friends, family or strangers — must be conscious of their welcome.
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The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.
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Snow's a searchin' thing. Snow be's like sorrow. It searches people out.
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Houses are individual and can be owned, like nests, and fought for. But what of the land? It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its seasonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.
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Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.
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It is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.
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She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.
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The family ate hugely, they were like a school of voracious fish feeding under the sea of chatter.
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We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men
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The sound of his father's voice was a necessity. He longed for the sight of his stooped shoulders as he had never, in the sharpest of his hunger, longed for food.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Born:
August 8, 1896
Died:
December 14, 1953
(aged 57)
Bio:
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings.
Known for:
The Yearling (1938)
Cross Creek Cookery (1942)
The Secret River
When the whippoorwill (1940)
South Moon Under (1933)
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