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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
Marguerite Young
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Marguerite Young
Age: 87 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 28
Died: 1995
Died: November 17
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Indianapolis
Indiana
Marguerite Vivian Young
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I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
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Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
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Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
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Don't blindly follow any leader.
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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
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I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
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I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
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When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
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we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.
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