Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotations

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.

the truth is artistically fallacious.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

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

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

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.

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.

It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.