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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.

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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no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.
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I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.
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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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No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.
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Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
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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.
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Words began fights and words ended them.
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The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.
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people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.
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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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I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
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the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.
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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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It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
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...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.
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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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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.
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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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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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