"People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do……" — Mary MacLane
"People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis."
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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 Emphasis Quotes
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My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater…
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous…
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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to…
— David Brinkley
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach…
— Mitch Albom
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the…
— Edward de Bono
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Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history…
— Douglas MacArthur
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I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success…
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