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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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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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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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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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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
Marya Mannes
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
Marya Mannes
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
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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.
Marya Mannes
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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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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A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
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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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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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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.
Marya Mannes
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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
Marya Mannes
No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a clean bomb yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
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