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Mary MacLane

Mary MacLane

Canadian Writer

Born: May 1, 1881

Died: Aug 6, 1929

Because Book Genius Me Never World

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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul. Mary MacLane

Me Soul Woman Heart Quality Genius Strong Starved Kind Excellent Taken Empty Always Been Wooden Certain Body

I love devils. Mary MacLane

Love Devils

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. Mary MacLane

Day Every Day World Every Books Once Admiring Write Written Years Different Want Subtle Such Things Large Compel Things

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be. Mary MacLane

Alone Born Shall Always Want Now

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. Mary MacLane

Happy Mother Wife Would Rather Fairly

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. Mary MacLane

Book Girl Young Pain Minds Dire Read Effects Young Girls

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm. Mary MacLane

Me World Beginning Strike Take Make Vulnerable Spot Storm

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. Mary MacLane

Life Time You Soul Book Emotions Three Year Own Analysis Nineteenth Months Though My Own Written Wrote Understand Diary Just Form Then Publication Now Portrayal

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all. Mary MacLane

Truth Myself Book Neither All Things Never Names Remotely Wrote Well Call Vulgar Always Am Even Things Suggestive

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