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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
Learning
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Precept
Teaching
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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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Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.
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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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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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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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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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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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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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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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... 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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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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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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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 attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
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Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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