106 Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

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.

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

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.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.