people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings More Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings More Quotes From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings testsbeauty Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings garlicusedfood 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 innocentmenway 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 unfinishedfoundbook The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings cookingfishingfood 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 wreathsgrowthmen He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings forgettrying Words began fights and words ended them. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings conflictfighting 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 justicepeopleyears 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 publicityfancyintegrity 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 nakedcivilizationpeople 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 onenessstrongfall 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-manmaymen 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 exaltationpulsesecret to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lonelinessenoughcomfort the truth is artistically fallacious. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings truth-isliteraturetruth I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings victorybattlefear 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 flowermenlong 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 enemieswillnevercold
