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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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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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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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A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.
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it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.
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Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
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Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.
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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.
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I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.
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