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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. — Mary MacLane

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting ... — Mary MacLane

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman? — Mary MacLane

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis. — Mary MacLane

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. — Mary MacLane

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius. — Mary MacLane

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong. — Mary MacLane

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness. — Mary MacLane

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him. — Mary MacLane

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm. — Mary MacLane

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius. — Mary MacLane

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. — Mary MacLane

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness. — Mary MacLane

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile. — Mary MacLane

It is to be hoped you are not 'intellectual,' which is an unpardonable trait — Mary MacLane

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'
And I will answer: 'Yes. — Mary MacLane

... the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly - by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious. — Mary MacLane

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. — Mary MacLane

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. — Mary MacLane

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. — Mary MacLane

I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating. — Mary MacLane

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead. — 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. — Mary MacLane

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites. — Mary MacLane

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. — Mary MacLane

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. — Mary MacLane

It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature - like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines — Mary MacLane

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. — Mary MacLane

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings ... — Mary MacLane

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman. — Mary MacLane

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be. — Mary MacLane

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love? — Mary MacLane

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. — Mary MacLane

I want to live quietly. — Mary MacLane

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell. — Mary MacLane

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively. — Mary MacLane

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. — Mary MacLane

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. — Mary MacLane

I fail remarkably. I write Eye when I mean Tooth. I write Fornicate when I mean Caress. I write Wine when I mean Blood. — Mary MacLane