Mary MacLane Quotes

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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
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
I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

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

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

Mary MacLane
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

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

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

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

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

Mary MacLane
Except two breeds — the stupid and the narrowly feline — all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

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

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 have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.

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

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

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

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
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
But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

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

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.

Mary MacLane
The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that — to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

Mary MacLane
When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

Mary MacLane
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

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

Mary MacLane