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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. - Marguerite Young
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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. - Marguerite Young
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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it. - Marguerite Young
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I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about. - Marguerite Young
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All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe. - Marguerite Young
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. - Marguerite Young
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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. - Marguerite Young
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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized. - Marguerite Young
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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. - Marguerite Young
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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning. - Marguerite Young
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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. - Marguerite Young
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Life has no beginning, middle or end. - Marguerite Young
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. - Marguerite Young
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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. - Marguerite Young
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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. - Marguerite Young
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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. - Marguerite Young
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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. - Marguerite Young
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