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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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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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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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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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Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
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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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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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the truth is artistically fallacious.
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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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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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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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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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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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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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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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It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
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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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