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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
Author
Journalist
Sometimes
Ennoble
Excite
Entertain
Shock
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Ultimate
Please
Art
Titillate

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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
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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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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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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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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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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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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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