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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.
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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.
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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.
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A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.
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Mary MacLane
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Born:
May 1, 1881
Died:
August 6, 1929
(aged 48)
Bio:
Mary MacLane was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing. MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte".
Known for:
The Story Of Mary MacLane (1902)
I, Mary MacLane (1917)
Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Anthology
My Friend Annabel Lee (1903)
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