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Mary MacLane quotes

Canadian Writer May 1, 1881 – August 1, 1929

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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. Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane quote: "I love devils."
I love devils. Mary MacLane
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. Mary MacLane
The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. 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 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
Mary MacLane quote: "I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother."
I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. 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
Mary MacLane quote: "I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I..."
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness. Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane quote: "It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book..."
It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. Mary MacLane
I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book. Mary MacLane
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. Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane quote: "I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. 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
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul. Mary MacLane

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