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“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
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“Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.”
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“Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.”
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“I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.”
Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.125, Petrarca Press
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“A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.”
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“Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.”
Source : Richard North Patterson (2010). “In the Name of Honor”, p.288, Macmillan
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“An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.”
Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.231, Feminist Press at CUNY
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“There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.”
