Margaret Anderson

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

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

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

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

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to read more

. . . 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.

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

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

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't read more

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.