Margaret Anderson Quotes

#1. It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Margaret Anderson

#2. Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.

Margaret Anderson

#3. I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

Margaret Anderson

#4. My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Margaret Anderson

#5. 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

#6. I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable - in other words, in an art of life.

Margaret Anderson

#7. As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.

Margaret Anderson

#8. This is the most beautiful thing we'll ever have to publish. Let us print it if it's the last effort of our lives!

-on publishing Ulysses

Margaret Anderson

#9. 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

#10. Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

Margaret Anderson

#11. Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

Margaret Anderson