List of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

I Have Found That Each Of My Books Has Developed Out Of Something I Have Written In A Previous Book. Some Thought Evidently Unfinished.

It Is Not That Death Comes, But That Life Leaves.

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.

Garlic, Like Perfume, Must Be Used With Discretion And On The Proper Occasions.

People In General Are Totally Unable To Detach The Personality Of A Writer From The Products Of His Thinking.

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.

To Comfort Any Mortal Against Loneliness, One Other Is Enough.

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.

Living Was No Longer The Grief Behind Him, But The Anxiety Ahead.

Madness Is Only A Variety Of Mental Nonconformity And We Are All Individualists Here.

The Best Fish In The World Are Of Course Those One Catches Oneself.

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.