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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

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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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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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
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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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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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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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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 people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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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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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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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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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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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... 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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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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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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... 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 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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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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