Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes
...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.
Citations
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek Cookery. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.
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