18 Quotes by Margaret Anderson

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

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

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.

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

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

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

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

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

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.