WIST Quotations

Anderson, Margaret -- My Thirty Years’ War, ch. 1 (1930)

Dave — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:03:52 +0000

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

Anderson, Margaret -- The Fiery Fountains (1951)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

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

Anderson, Margaret -- The Fiery Fountains, Part 1 (1951)

Dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:52:53 +0000

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

Anderson, Margaret -- The Fiery Fountains, Part 1 (1951)

Dave — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:42:26 +0000

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