Margaret Anderson > Quotes

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?”
― Margaret Anderson

“In real love, you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
― Margaret C. 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”
― Margaret Anderson

“I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable — in other words, in an art of life.”
― Margaret Anderson

“I have always rebelled against the unadorned, the unbefitting, the unawakened, the unresisting, the undesirable, the unplanned, the unshapely, the uncommitted, the unattempted -- all leading to the unintended. I believe in the unsubmissive, the unflattering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable -- in other words, in an art of life.”
― Margaret Anderson

“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
― Margaret Anderson

“My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.”
― Margaret C. Anderson

“With us, love is just as punishable as murder or robbery…”
― Margaret Anderson, My Thirty Years' War; An Autobiography,