Best Mary MacLane Quotes
- Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. Firsts
- There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong. Funny
- One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep. Aim
- The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. Filled
- Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even… All
- People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis. Emphasis
- 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… Adventure
- May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. Abnormal
- I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis. Analysis
- I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings… Calmly
- I love devils. Devils
- 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… All
- The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when… All