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He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her
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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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.
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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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the truth is artistically fallacious.
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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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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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