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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

#anyone #attacked #ever #him #i

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

#away #because #been #called #decent

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#doomed #either #i #man #myself

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

#back #certainly #emulate #hand #i

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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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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