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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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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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Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
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The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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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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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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... 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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Example is better than precept.
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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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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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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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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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 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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The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
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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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