Mary MacLane

“My life is a dry, empty husk.”

“I am waiting for the devil.”

“I should like to have a man seize me and hurt me and kiss me.”

“The Devil is the only person who has ever understood me.”

“I wish some one would write a book about a plain, bad heroine so that I might feel in real sympathy with her.”

“The world is a world of crap.”

“I of womankind and of nineteen years, will now begin to set down as full and frank a Portrayal as I am able of myself, Mary MacLane, for whom I have such a boundless admiration.”

“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense and vibrant temperament.”

“I am in my antechamber of hell.”

“I am filled with an unutterable loneliness.”

“I am convinced that I am a genius.”

“My soul is a beige-colored thing.”

“Butte, Montana, is a place of sand and barrenness.”

“I am a philosopher.”

“I want to be a moving-picture actress.”

“I have no friends.”

“I want to experience everything.”

“I have a thin, blond, calculating soul.”

“I am possessed of a peculiar devil.”