The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites. Mary MacLane More Quotes by Mary MacLane More Quotes From Mary MacLane When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage. Mary MacLane marriagereligiousmen The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them. Mary MacLane succeedliteratureworld But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value. Mary MacLane vaporessencepersonality Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness. Mary MacLane geniusnaturaljoy 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 vulgarnamesbook The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. Mary MacLane whitelittlesworld One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep. Mary MacLane interestpayworld Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes. Mary MacLane devilanswers I love devils. Mary MacLane devilsi-lovelove 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 yousoultimelife The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then. Mary MacLane storymejoybook
