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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Conversation
Wind
High
Around
Gaily
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Whipped
Rags
Table
Tables

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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
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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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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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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
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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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you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
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The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
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Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
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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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