All Marguerite Young Quotes
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Marguerite Young
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Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
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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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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
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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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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
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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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