Yearling Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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• Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
• She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I…
• Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may…
• Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under…
• It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the…
• Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and…
• A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't
• When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his…
• ...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion.…
• The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.
• No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
• The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a…

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