Quotes from Mary MacLane

The kisses of the gastric juice become hot and sensual and convulsive and ecstatic.

To be a woman, young and all alone, is hard - hard! - is to want things, is to carry a heavy, heavy weight.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel - everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.-

But I am too young yet to think of peace. It is not peace that I want. Peace is for forty and fifty; I am waiting for my Experience. I am awaiting the coming of the Devil.

I have the personality, the nature, of Napoleon, albeit a feminine translation.

It is well, if one has nothing, to acquire an air.

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent and steal away; Happiness may remain a sealed book; every remnant of human ties may vanish; I may find myself an outcast; good things held out to me may suddenly be withdrawn; the stars may go out, one by one; the sun may go dark; yet still I may hold upright my head, if I have but my steak—and my onions.

An idle brain is the Devil's workshop, they say. It is an absurdly incongruous statement. If the Devil is at work in a rain it certainly is not idle.