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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.
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The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.
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Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will in business, of course, it's profit.
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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.
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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
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All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.
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I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.
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The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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