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All Quotes by author - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

" 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. "

" I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I. "

" No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. "

" 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. "

" We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion. "

" 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. "

" Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. "

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