Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quotes

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. (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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. View quote
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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. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. View quote
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Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. View quote
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We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again. View quote
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings