Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Margaret Anderson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American editor Margaret Anderson.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Margaret Anderson

Margaret Caroline Anderson was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, in the United States and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel Ulysses.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too. — © Margaret Anderson
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
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.
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
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