"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."

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Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.24, Petrarca Press

Mary MacLane

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“I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.”

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“The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.”
“When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.”
“I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.”
“We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.”
“A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.”
“Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.”
“Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' â€”That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”

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