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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

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I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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I have never read a line of Walt Whitman. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

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