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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.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
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A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
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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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I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
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The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.
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the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.
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I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
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