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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

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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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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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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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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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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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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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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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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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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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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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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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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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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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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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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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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