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• I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Art, Skills, Underwear

  Letter to Guy Moyston, June 25, 1925.

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• Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Quilts, Memories, Flower

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Life, Taken, Science

  Journal entry for 1923. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 7, 1993.

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• no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Self, Two, Groups

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• Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Country, Animal, Men

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• An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Circles, Break Out, Movement

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• Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Sunshine, Sunday, Air

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane, 1935.

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• I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I'll be living a beautiful life.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Beautiful, Writing, Ideas

  "The Ghost in the Little House". Book by William V. Holtz. Chapter 8, 1993.

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• Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Writing, Effort, Quality

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane. Chapter 1, 1935.

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• Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  War, Men, Essence

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

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• A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Kissing, Eggs, Mustache

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

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• The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Real, Protection, Property

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• All men are brothers and each man is free.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Brother, Men

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• I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Real, Tree, Principles

  Letter to Arthur Griggs, June 22, 1920.

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• The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Years, Twenties, Firsts

  Diary entry, 1927.

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• I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Mother, Cutting, Years

  Rose Wilder Lane's diary entry, December 9, 1933.

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• The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Summer, Dust, Years

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• I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Letting Go, Men, Self

  Letter to Dorothy Thompson, December 29, 1927.

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