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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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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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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 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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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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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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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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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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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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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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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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It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
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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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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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