Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Short Quotes

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The sun lay like a friendly arm across her square shoulders.

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

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

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

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

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Stars clustered about the chimney-top like silver bees in swarm.

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

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

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

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

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Snow's a searchin' thing. Snow be's like sorrow. It searches people out.

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

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

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

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Their thoughts moved brightly toward each other, like fireflies in the darkness.

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Her satisfaction rose to the surface like the thick golden cream on the milk pans.

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

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He was the delight of fine cooks, who took his absent-minded capacity for appreciation.

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He had the Gaelic gaiety and melancholy, like the streaks of fat and lean in Irish bacon.

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

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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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The family ate hugely, they were like a school of voracious fish feeding under the sea of chatter.

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It was a quieter matter, he thought, for one advanced in years; not that death comes, but that life goes.

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

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

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He shared their sorrow, and they became a part of his, and the sharing spread their grief a little, by thinning it.

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

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Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

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You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther.... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

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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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