"The book, you understand, was not written for……" — Mary MacLane
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
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Mary MacLane
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38 Quotes by Mary MacLane
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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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