I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas … — Margaret Anderson

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Margaret AndersonEditor · American · 1886 – 1973

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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. — Mark Twain
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. — Margaret Anderson
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. — Margaret Anderson
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. — Margaret Anderson