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Margaret Anderson

"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."

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"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."

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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."

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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."

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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

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"Her words dance on the page."

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"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."

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"The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync."

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"I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least."

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"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."

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"Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity."

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"People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place."

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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
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"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
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"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."
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"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."
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"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."
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"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."
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