Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 August 1896
CountryUnited States of America
Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.
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.
I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.
You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.
No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.