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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.
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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
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It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
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in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.
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Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
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English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.
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American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
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