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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.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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 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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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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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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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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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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 candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax no greater liability than a command of language.
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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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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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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
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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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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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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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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
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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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