Famous Quotes by Margaret Anderson

  • I began reviewing my life in relation to its objectives. I saw no objects, I saw only states. More
  • ... people with heavy physical vibrations rule the world. More
  • I wasn’t born to be a fighter. I was born with a gentle nature, a flexible character and an... More
  • Self-preservation is the first responsibility. More
  • I became increasingly anarchistic. I began to find people of my own class vicious, people in... More
  • ... the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don’t want to do, and,... More
  • I can’t earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It’s like making... More
  • I was born to be an editor, I always edit everything. I edit my room at least once a week. Hotels... More
  • I had been curiously depressed all day. In the night I wakened. First precise thought: I know why... More
  • Three characteristics mark all confirmed expatriates: (1) slowness on the up-take, (2) the... More
  • I have never been able to accept the two great laws of humanity—that you’re always being... More
  • I was always pretending that I was a poor-working-girl, always forgetting that I was really poor... More
  • I have always had something to live besides a personal life. And I suspected very early that to... More
  • ... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins... More
  • ...I didn’t consider intellectuals intelligent, I never liked them or their thoughts about... More
  • ... laws haven’t the slightest interest for me—except in the world of science, in which they... More
  • It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one’s... More
  • Art to me was a state, it didn’t need to be an accomplishment. By any of the standards of... More
  • I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country. More
  • Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only... More
  • As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of... More
  • Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you’re beginning to live... More
  • Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be—a cake, which I have eaten and had too. More
  • How can anyone be interested in war?—that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious... More
  • Have you ever turned toward an intellectual in a time of authentic anguish and encountered his... More
  • INTELLECTUALS DO NOT HAVE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES. More
  • Art is “should be.” More
  • I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn’t know it existed. It didn’t occur... More
  • ... today ... photographers prefer disfigurement to adornment. It is now chic to do your worst to... More
  • Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. More
  • I have always fought for ideas—until I learned that it isn’t ideas but grief, struggle, and... More
  • I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who... More
  • I never wanted to live an unembellished life, and I have never done it.... Living under such a... More
  • Modern photographers can reduce bones to formlessness, and change a face of the most strange,... More
  • I have always rebelled against the unadorned, the unbefitting, the unawakened, the unresisting,... More
  • It would be ... better to be judged by one’s superiors than by one’s peers. ...In a trial... More

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