"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness.……" — Marguerite Young
"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."
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Marguerite Young
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35 Quotes by Marguerite Young
Marguerite Young has 35 quotes on this site.
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Life has no beginning, middle or end.
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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
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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…
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that…
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death,…
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Don't blindly follow any leader.
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Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the…
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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
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I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont…
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I…
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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…
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All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
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More Avoid Quotes
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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