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

Marguerite Young

#Believe Quotes #Desire Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one.”
“When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.”
“You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.”
“The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.”

Source : Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.100, Macmillan
“To be a feminist is to be alive”
“Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.”
“In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.”
“Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.”

Source : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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