"One must always say things that aim to……" — Mary MacLane
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
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Mary MacLane
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38 Quotes by Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane has 38 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to…
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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…
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I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and…
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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…
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I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the…
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond…
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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where…
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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality;…
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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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More Aim Quotes
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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