"Now he understood. This was death. Death was……" — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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26 Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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,…
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the…
Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth…
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow…
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of…
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…
...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a…
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…

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Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can… — Julian Assange
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. — Jane Austen
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people… — Dan Aykroyd
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word:… — Dave Barry
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. — Ruth Benedict
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before… — Jose Bergamin
I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.' — Elizabeth Berkley
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. — Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. — Yogi Berra

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