Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

• 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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  Amor, Divertido, Vida

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Me parece que la tierra puede prestarse, pero no comprarse. Se puede usar, pero no poseer. Somos inquilinos, no poseedores, amantes y no amos.

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  Earth, May, Lovers

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic

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• No entiendo cómo alguien puede vivir sin un pequeño lugar encantado al que acudir.

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  Religion, Enchantment, Turns

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.34, Booklassic

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• Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. 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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  Rain, Thinking, Wind

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• 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

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  Heart, Men, Earth

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.3, Booklassic

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• Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

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  Fear, Real, Fighting

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.148, Booklassic

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• Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

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  Cooking, Good Company, Calories

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Moving, Florida, Passing

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.217, Booklassic

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• Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

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  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

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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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  Men, Never Forget, Forget

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• 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.

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  Long, Soul, Lasts

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• Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.

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  Wind, Sky, Dancing

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1985). “The Yearling”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Men, Should Have, Land

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Rain, Wind, Sun

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic

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• But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

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  Beautiful, Book, Blessing

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• Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

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  Writing, Agony, Eight

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• Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient of the iceberg principle - three-fourths of the substance under the surface. He comes closer that way to retaining the magic of the original, unexpressed idea or emotion, which is always more stirring than any words. But just try and do it!

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  Writing, Simple, Ideas

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• Cuando una ola de amor se apodera de un ser humano... se apodera de él tal exaltación que sabe que ha puesto el dedo en el pulso del gran secreto y de la gran respuesta.

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  Secret, Pulse, Exaltation

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.326, Booklassic

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• It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

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  Years, People, Justice

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• A man'll seem like a person to a woman, year in, year out. She'll put up and she'll put up. Then one day he'll do something maybe no worse than what he's been a-doing all his life. She'll look at him. And without no warning he'll look like a varmint.

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  Hombres, Años, Un Día

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

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  Strong, Stuff, Bears

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• Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

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  Successful, Simple, Two

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• Words began fights and words ended them.

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  Fighting, Conflict

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Life And Death, Done

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

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  House, Ants, Owners

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.135, Booklassic

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