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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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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.


— Marguerite Young


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


— 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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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.


— Marguerite Young


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


— Marguerite Young


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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.


— 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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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


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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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About Marguerite Young






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Weissenbach was to be the inspiration for the Opium Lady in Miss MacIntosh My Darling and her drug-based flights of fantasy were to make their way into the novel. Her parents separated when Marguerite Young was very young and Marguerite Young was raised by her maternal grandmother who nurtured her love of literature. Thomas ISBN 978-0-7432-1562-6.

Marguerite Vivian Young (August 28 1908 – November 17 1995) was an American author of poetry fiction non-fiction and criticism. ". Her work evinced an interest in social issues and environmentalism.

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