“I wasn’t born to be a fighter. I was born with a gentle nature, a flexible character and an organism as equilibrated as it is judged hysterical. I shouldn’t have been forced to fight constantly and ferociously. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“… laws haven’t the slightest interest for me–except in the world of science, in which they are always changing; or in the worldof art, in which they are unchanging; or in the world of Being in which they are, for the most part, unknown.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“… today … photographers prefer disfigurement to adornment. It is now chic to do your worst to people.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don’t have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“I have always rebelled against the unadorned, the unbefitting, the unawakened, the unresisting, the undesirable, the unplanned, the unshapely, the uncommitted, the unattempted–all leading to the unintended. I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable–in other words, in an art of life.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“… the … radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin–preludes, etudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Music
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
Vote Up
0
Vote Down
Favorite
“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
Margaret Anderson
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
