{"author":"Mary MacLane","author_id":"Mary+MacLane","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"As I stand among the barren gulches in these days and look away at the slow-awakening hills of Montana, I hear the high, swelling, half tired, half-hopeful song of the world. As I listen I know that there are things, other than the Virtue and the Truth and the Love, that are not for me. There is beyond me, like these, the unbreaking, undying bond of human fellowship—a thing that is earth-old.","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["female-adolescent-angst","genius"],"id":8448,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting….","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["desire","selfishness"],"id":43841,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["egotism","individuality"],"id":57336,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature—like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines.","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["human-nature"],"id":103112,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"But no matter how ferociously pitiable is the dried up graveyard, the sand and barrenness and the sluggish little stream have their own persistent individual damnation. The world is at least so constructed that its treasures may be damned each in a different manner and degree.","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["adolescent-female-angst","nature","rage"],"id":165988,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["self"],"id":171700,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"From insipid sweet wine; from men who wear moustaches; from the sort of people that call legs 'limbs'; from bedraggled white petticoats: Kind Devil, deliver me.","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["female-adolescent-angst","genius","sincere-prayer"],"id":175017,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"Surely there must be in a world of manifold beautiful things something among them for me. And always, while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it.","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["ambition","female-adolescent-angst"],"id":175663,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"An idle brain is the Devil’s workshop, they say. It is an absurdly incongruous statement. If the Devil is at work in a brain it certainly is not idle. And when one considers how brilliant a personage the Devil is, and what very fine work he turns out, it becomes an open question whether he would have the slightest use for most of the idle brains that cumber the earth.","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["female-adolescent-angst","genius"],"id":206869,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"},{"text":"If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, and you must not waste any of it but what you do have will be of the most excellent quality. For it will accumulate, and the accumulation will all go to quality. And the things for which you are to be grateful are the bitternesses you have known.If you have had it in mind ever to give way to bursts of gratitude for this air that comes from off the salt sea, for that line of pearls and violets that you see just above the horizon, for the health of your body, for the sleep that comes to you at the close of the day, for any of those things, then get rid of the idea at once. Those things are quite well, but they are not really given to you. They are merely placed where any one can reach them with little effort. The kind fates don't care whether you get them or not. Their responsibility ends when they leave them. ","author":"Mary MacLane","tags":["bitterness","fates","gratitude"],"id":248375,"author_id":"Mary+MacLane"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}