"One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously……" — Mary MacLane
"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 than the murder done."
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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 Adventure Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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