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• It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

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  Country, Nature, Animal

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.34, Booklassic

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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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  Wisdom, Experience, Dollars

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• the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

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  Obvious

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

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  House, Ants, Owners

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.135, Booklassic

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• Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

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  Grieving, Wind, Sorrow

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “South Moon Under”, p.70, Booklassic

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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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  Struggle, Book, Fall

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• Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.

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  Men, Gone Away, Silence

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• It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

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  Life And Death, Done

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• ...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.

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  Thinking, Delicate Life, Pie

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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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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  War, Thinking, People

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• Now, having left cities behind me, turned Away forever from the strange, gregarious Huddling of men by stones, I find those various Great towns I knew fused into one, burned Together in the fire of my despising.

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  Men, Fire, Cities

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• For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

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  Lonely, Heart, Cities

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.5, Booklassic

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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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  Cat, Son, Talking

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Fall, Fighting, Animal

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• Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

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  Boys, Past, Forever

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.572, Simon and Schuster

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• Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

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  Grief, Anxiety, Behinds

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.557, Simon and Schuster

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• Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

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  Integrity, Fancy, Publicity

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• You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.

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  Men, Way, Innocent

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• She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.

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  Civilization, People, Naked

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.308, Booklassic

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• no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

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  White, Racism, Southern

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• Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

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  Madness, Variety, Nonconformity

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.2, Booklassic

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• It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

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  Dog, Horse, Rain

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

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• The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

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  Beauty, Tests

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic

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• He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

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  Trying, Forget

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