Mary MacLane Quotes
Top 39 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane Famous Quotes & Sayings
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One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.
I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting ...
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?
Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.
Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
... the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly - by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.
The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.
At this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.
It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature - like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
I fail remarkably. I write Eye when I mean Tooth. I write Fornicate when I mean Caress. I write Wine when I mean Blood.