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… [T]he 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.

Margaret Anderson (1886-1973) American editor, memoirist
My Thirty Years’ War, ch. 1 (1930)

In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Margaret Anderson (1886-1973) American editor, memoirist
The Fiery Fountains (1951)

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you’re beginning to live for a single aim — for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths — when all you’re really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.

Margaret Anderson (1886-1973) American editor, memoirist
The Fiery Fountains, Part 1 (1951)

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 (1886-1973) American editor, memoirist
The Fiery Fountains, Part 1 (1951)