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“The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.”

Quote by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Book:Cross Creek Cookery

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Cross Creek Cookery

This book offers a glimpse into the author's life in a rural setting, featuring a variety of recipes inspired by the local cuisine and natural ingredients available in the Florida countryside. more

Author

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author renowned for her works set in the Florida Everglades. Her novel 'The Yearling' earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939. Born on August 8, 1896, Rawlings passed away on December 14, 1953. more

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“Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.”

Company Conditions Cooking Mere Prepared Reasonable Calories Chores Good Company

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“It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.”

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“Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.”

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“Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.”

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“I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.”

Done Fear Mines Victory Battle

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“Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.”

Moving Seasons Passing Passings Clothings Florida Nun

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“Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.”

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“They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.”

Men Long Whole Earth Together Asks Flower Creatures Men And Women Fruit Bounds

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“Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.”

Fall Individual Strong Ego Claims Dare Endless Oneness Thread Entity Catastrophe Beads Rise And Fall

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“A man'll seem like a person to a woman, year in, year out. She'll put up and she'll put up. Then one day he'll do something maybe no worse than what he's been a-doing all his life. She'll look at him. And without no warning he'll look like a varmint.”

Men Years Looks Persons Seems One Day Warning

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