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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.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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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.
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The great omission in American life is solitude not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
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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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All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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 Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
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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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
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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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