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Marya Mannes

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    A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

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    Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

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    A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

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    All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

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    All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

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    All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

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    A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

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    A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

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    An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

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    Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

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    Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

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    A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

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    Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

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    Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

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    fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

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    flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

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    Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

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    For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

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    Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

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    Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

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    Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

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    I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

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    I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

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    If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

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    In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

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    In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

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    In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

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    Infants are interesting only to their parents.

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    In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

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    In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

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    Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

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    It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

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    It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

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    It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

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    It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

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    It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

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    I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

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    Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

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    Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

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    Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

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    Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

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    Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

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    on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

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    One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

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    People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.

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    People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

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    Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

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    Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

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    Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

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    Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.