72 Quotes by Marguerite Young

Don't blindly follow any leader.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

For me, a plain Middle Westerner, there is no middle way. I am in love with whatever is eccentric, devious, strange, singular, unique, out of this world—and with life as an incalculable, a chaotic thing.

Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

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.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.