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

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Beauty, Tests

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

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• I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

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  Fear, Victory, Battle

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.155, Booklassic

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• The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

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  Food, Fishing, Cooking

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

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  Men, May, He Man

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.108, Booklassic

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• The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

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  Men, Growth, Wreaths

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Strong, Fall, Oneness

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

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• Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

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  Food, Garlic, Used

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Flower, Men, Long

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• I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Book, Found, Unfinished

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• people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Thinking, People, Personality

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