Mary MacLane Quotes - Page 2

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• When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

  Mary MacLane

  Marriage, Religious, Men

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.38, Petrarca Press

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• Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

  Mary MacLane

  Real, Writing, Would Be

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• Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

  Mary MacLane

  People, May, Littles

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

  Mary MacLane

  Book, Liking Someone, Wish

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.125, Petrarca Press

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• When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

  Mary MacLane

  Taken, Years, Vapid

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• It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

  Mary MacLane

  Girl, Pain, Book

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• I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

  Mary MacLane

  Play, Adore, I Like Him

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• One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

  Mary MacLane

  Adventure, Done, Murder

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.389, Petrarca Press

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• You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

  Mary MacLane

  Girl, Clever, Writing

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• at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

  Mary MacLane

  Important, Faces, World

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.387, Petrarca Press

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• Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

  Mary MacLane

  Sex, Stupid, Two

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.514, Petrarca Press

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• Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

  Mary MacLane

  World, Sexuality, Pure Love

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.29, Petrarca Press

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• I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

  Mary MacLane

  Writing, Eating

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.20, Petrarca Press

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• Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

  Mary MacLane

  Devil, Answers

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.64, Petrarca Press

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• Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

  Mary MacLane

  Falling In Love, Men, Thinking

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.122, The Floating Press

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• The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

  Mary MacLane

  Art, Two, Essentials

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

  Mary MacLane

  World, Pay, Interest

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.129, Petrarca Press

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• Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

  Mary MacLane

  Firsts, Poet

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.128, Petrarca Press

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• My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

  Mary MacLane

  Desire, Goes On, Lectures

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• Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

  Mary MacLane

  Storm, World, Vulnerable

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.22, Petrarca Press

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• I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

  Mary MacLane

  Made, Plans

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• I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

  Mary MacLane

  Want, Fame, I Can

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.21, The Floating Press

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• I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

  Mary MacLane

  Girl, Book, Reading

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• I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

  Mary MacLane

  Lines, Walt

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.123, Petrarca Press

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