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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.
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 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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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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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 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 important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do 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 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 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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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