Mary MacLane Quotes
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Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.
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There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
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You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
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I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.
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I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
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A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.
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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.
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Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?
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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.
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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.
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The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.
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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
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I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.
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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.
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Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.
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Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
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The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.
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May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
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I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
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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 all minded being cursed a little.
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I want to live quietly.
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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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My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
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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.
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Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?
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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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However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
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I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
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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.
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