A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsMadness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsWe 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
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsSomewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsYou know what I wisht I had, Ma? A pouch like a 'possum, to tote things.
--The Yearling
This, then, was hunger. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he had thought he had known hunger, and it was faintly pleasant. He knew now that it had been only appetite. This was another thing.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsWe were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. 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.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsTags: nature environment
...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.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsI do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsThey listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account.
"Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly.
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