All Marguerite Young Quotes
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
Marguerite Young
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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.
Marguerite Young
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I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
Marguerite Young
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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.
Marguerite Young
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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
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
Marguerite Young
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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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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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.
Marguerite Young
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Marguerite Young
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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Marguerite Young
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I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
Marguerite Young
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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
Marguerite Young
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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.
Marguerite Young
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