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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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Journalist
Communication
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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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In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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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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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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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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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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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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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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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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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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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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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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