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Mary MacLane has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall…
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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…
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I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
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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…
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I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all…
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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…
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I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who…
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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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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived…
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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,…
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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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Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book…
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With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to…
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The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because…
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me…
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