Rose Wilder Lane: Quotes about life

Rose Wilder Lane was American journalist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Written in 1935, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 2, by William V. Holtz (1993).

“I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that’s piled up ahead of me, I’ll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I’ll be living a beautiful life.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Written in the 1920s, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 8, by William V. Holtz (1993).

“Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Journal entry (1923), as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 7, by William V. Holtz (1993).

“Men are alive on this earth, only because the imperative human desire is to attack the enemies of human life.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Source: Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943), p. viii.

“Writing fiction is … an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Source: Old Home Town (1935), Ch. 1.

“The first twenty years of my life were wasted…I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Diary, (1927).

“Making the best of things is … a damn poor way of dealing with them…. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Letters to Guy Moyston, (August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925).

“Two deep human desires were at war … the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Source: Old Home Town (1935), Ch. 1.

“There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.”

Rose Wilder Lane

Source: Old Home Town (1935), Ch. 1.