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29 quotes by Mary MacLane

Books[edit] The Story of Mary MacLane (1902) My Friend, Annabel Lee (1903) I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days (1917, 2013) Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Anthology (reprint) (1993) The Story of Mary MacLane and Other Writings (reprint anthology) (1999) I Await the Devil's Coming (2013) Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader (foreword by Bojana Novakovic) (2014) Mary in The Press: Miss MacLane and Her Fame (forthcoming - 2015) A Quite Unusual...
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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but... →

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I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong... →

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The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months... →

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The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

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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.

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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... →

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

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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a... →

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I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

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There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

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

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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

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