Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

…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.

Delicate Life

Pie

Thinking

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

Animal

Fall

Fighting

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.

Men

One Day

Years

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Funny

Life

Love

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn’t

Forget

Men

Never Forget

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Ants

House

Owners

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.

Beautiful

Blessing

Book

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Rain

Sun

Wind

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man’s mind.

Fear

Fighting

Real

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

Calories

Cooking

Good Company

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Agony

Animal

Answers

Ants

Anxiety

Battle

Bears

Beautiful

Beauty

Behinds

Blessing

Book

Boys

Calories

Cat

Cities

Civilization

Comfort

Conflict

Cooking

Country

Dancing

Delicate Life

Dog

Dollars

Done

Earth

Eight

Enchantment

Enough

Exaltation

Experience

Fall

Fancy

Fear

Fighting

Fire

Fishing

Florida

Flower

Food

Forever

Forget

Found

Funny

Garlic

Gone Away

Good Company

Grief

Grieving

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Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

…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.

A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

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.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn’t

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

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.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man’s mind.

Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

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