"She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people.……" — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"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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26 Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the…
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Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth…
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It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow…
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Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of…
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A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't
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When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has…
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...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a…
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The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.
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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 individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried…
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Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I…
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