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They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Age: 57 †
Born: 1896
Born: August 8
Died: 1953
Died: December 14
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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
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I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.
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Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
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the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.
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You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.
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