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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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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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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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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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All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.
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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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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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television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.
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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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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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on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung and without this mechanical pumping it dies.
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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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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.
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