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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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Snoring
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Cleaner
Father
Cleaners
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Increasingly
Heat
Grows
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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 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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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 role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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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 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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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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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
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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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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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I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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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 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 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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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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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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