Marguerite Young Quotes - Page 2

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• Don't blindly follow any leader.

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  Leader, Hallucinations

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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.

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  Character, America, Littles

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

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  One Thing

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• A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

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  Book, Mean, Writing

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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.

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  Women, Writing, Names

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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.

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  Time, Fun, Years

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• Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

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  Love, Speak

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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.

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  Real, Book, Writing

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• I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

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  Strong, Believe, Political

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

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  Book, Has Beens, Written

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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.

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  Time, Teaching, Writing

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

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  May, Flaws, Flawed

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