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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
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Blasphemy
Liberating
Year
Next
Truth
Ideas
Years

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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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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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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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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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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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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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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 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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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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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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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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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