Olive Ann Burns Quotes

Olive Ann Burns was an American writer from Georgia best known for her single completed novel, Cold Sassy Tree, published in 1984. Wikipedia

✵ 17. July 1924 – 4. July 1990

Works

Cold Sassy Tree

Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns

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Olive Ann Burns Quotes

“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”

Olive Ann Burns book Cold Sassy Tree

Source: Cold Sassy Tree

Personality

“Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.”

Olive Ann Burns book Cold Sassy Tree

Source: Cold Sassy Tree

Water

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