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Margaret Anderson
American
Editor
About the author
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.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#Want
#Nothing
#Law
#Inspiration
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#Vision
#Ideas
#Struggle
#Grief
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#Enemy
#Years
#Reality
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#Life
#Thought
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#American
#Writer
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#Intellectuals
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#Want
#Love
#Romantic
Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#Responsibility
#First
#Self
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
Margaret Anderson,
American
Editor
#Country