Marguerite Young Quotes

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• If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

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  Leadership, Insane, Hallucinations

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• I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

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  Believe, Desire, Obsession

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

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  Fate, Realizing

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• Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

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  Heart, Soul, Faces

  Marguerite Young (1965). “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling”

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• A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

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  Wedding, Ghouls, Gowns

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• If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

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  Writing, Character, Obsession

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• When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

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  Reality, Ideas, People

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

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  Beauty, Writing, Journey

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• Life has no beginning, middle or end.

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  Ends, Middle

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• Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

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  Philosophy, Poetic, Realism

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• I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

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  Joseph Smith, Eliot

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• At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

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  Age, Poet, Young

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• I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

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  Years, Careers, Publishing

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• When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

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  Dream, Pursued

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• I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.

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  Flower, People, Personality

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• I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

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  Leader, Causes, Paradise

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• If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

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  Reality, Ideas, Leader

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• I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

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  Thinking, Hands, Voice

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• I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

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  Fate, Men, Born

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• Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

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  Saint, Augustine, Has Beens

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• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

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  Women, Writing, Names

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• I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

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  Time, Fun, Years

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• Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

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  Love, Speak

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• I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

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  Writing, Sleep, Night

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• I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

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  Time, Teaching, Writing

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