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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings More Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings More Quotes From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings garlic used food 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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings innocent men way people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings personality people thinking 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 unfinished found book The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings cooking fishing food 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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wreaths growth men He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings forget trying Words began fights and words ended them. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings conflict fighting It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings justice people years 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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings publicity fancy integrity 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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings naked civilization people 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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings oneness strong fall 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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings he-man may men It is not that death comes, but that life leaves. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings exaltation pulse secret to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings loneliness enough comfort the truth is artistically fallacious. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings truth-is literature truth I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings victory battle fear 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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings flower men long A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings enemies will never cold
