Margaret Anderson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Famous Quotes by Margaret Anderson
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“I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.”
Vision Quotes
“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
Inspirational Quotes
“My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.”
Reality Quotes
“I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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