"The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion."

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Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.57, Rutgers University Press

Mary Hunter Austin

#Country Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Land Quotes

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?”
“I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.”
“Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.”
“Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.”
“Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.”
“Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasnâ€™t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? â€˜Presume not the ways of God to scan,â€™ youâ€™ve been told in umpteen variations, â€˜the proper study of Mankind is Man.â€™ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (Thatâ€™s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)”
“When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.”

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