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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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The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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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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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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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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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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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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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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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
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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 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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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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