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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.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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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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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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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 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 aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.
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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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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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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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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
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