Marguerite Young Citas

• 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

  Leadership, Insane, Hallucinations

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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.

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  Believe, Desire, Obsession

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• Cada corazón es el otro corazón. Cada alma es la otra alma. Cada cara es la otra cara. El individuo es la única ilusión.

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  Heart, Soul, Faces

  Marguerite Young (1965). “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling”

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• we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

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  Fate, Realizing

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• I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

  Marguerite Young

  Years, Careers, Publishing

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• Un abogado que conocí una vez me habló de un caso extraño: una sufragista que nunca se había casado. Tras su muerte, abrió su baúl y descubrió 50 trajes de novia.

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  Wedding, Ghouls, Gowns

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• When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

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  Realidad, Ideas, Personas

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

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  Reality, Ideas, Leader

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• If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

  Marguerite Young

  Writing, Character, Obsession

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• Todos mis escritos tratan del reconocimiento de que no existe una única realidad. Pero lo bonito de esto es que, a pesar de todo, sigues adelante, caminando hacia la utopía, que puede no existir, sobre un puente que podría terminar antes de que llegues al otro lado.

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  Beauty, Writing, Journey

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• Life has no beginning, middle or end.

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  Ends, Middle

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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

  Philosophy, Poetic, Realism

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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

  Age, Poet, Young

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• When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

  Marguerite Young

  Dream, Pursued

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• I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

  Marguerite Young

  Joseph Smith, Eliot

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• I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.

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  Flower, People, Personality

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• I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

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  Leader, Causes, Paradise

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• I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  Marguerite Young

  Thinking, Hands, Voice

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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

  Fate, Men, Born

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• Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

  Marguerite Young

  Saint, Augustine, Has Beens

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• Un buen escritor no puede evitar tener conciencia social. No me refiero a pequeños escritos, sino a un gran libro. Si es un libro grande, tiene que haber más de una resaca.

  Marguerite Young

  Libro, Media, Escritura

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• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  Marguerite Young

  Women, Writing, Names

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• Conocí a Anais Nin, que me llamó después de que yo llevara unos años fuera. Buscaba ayuda porque en aquella época nadie le hacía una crítica decente. Se burlaban de ella.

  Marguerite Young

  Time, Fun, Years

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

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  Love, Speak

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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

  Time, Teaching, Writing

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