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Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Precept
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
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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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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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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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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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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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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
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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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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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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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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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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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