"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one."

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Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Love Quotes #Funny Quotes #Life Quotes

“My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.”
“Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.”
“Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.”
“Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.”
“Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.”

Source : W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The public be damned.”
“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”
“The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.”

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