“I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.” PeopleTryingLittlesUseCoursesLiteratureLanguageTeachStyleStudentsFlowerPersonalitySpeechCommunicateSubstanceParts Of LifeOrnaments Author:Marguerite Young
“When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl” PeopleKnowsHumansIdeasRealityHuman BeingsAcceptingGoes OnIllusionMaskMatureDisguiseNeverthelessIllusions Of Life Book:Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs Source: Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
“Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.” PeopleLongCommunityEnemyPrisonCriminalsMonstersPassingPassingsRealmsLeapAcceptableRespectabilityUltima Book:Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs Source: Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
“I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.” PeopleThinkingWantHandsVoicePicksMy ThoughtsEmulate Author:Marguerite Young
“I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.” PeopleWritingTryingBookRealCoursesStyleProseAbandonPoeticRealisticRealismSurrealBack And ForthDrunkards Author:Marguerite Young
