Marguerite Young Quotes - Page 2

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• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  Marguerite Young

  Women, Writing, Names

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• Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

  Marguerite Young

  Long, People, Community

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

  Marguerite Young

  Character, America, Littles

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• The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

  Marguerite Young

  Writing, Loss, Years

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• I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

  Marguerite Young

  Real, Book, Writing

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• I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

  Marguerite Young

  Time, Teaching, Writing

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• All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

  Marguerite Young

  May, Flaws, Flawed

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• I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

  Marguerite Young

  Real, Talent, Devotion

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• The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

  Marguerite Young

  Money, Awards, Association

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• All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

  Marguerite Young

  Book, Has Beens, Written

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• I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

  Marguerite Young

  One Thing

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• I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

  Marguerite Young

  Time, Fun, Years

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