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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 suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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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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The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.
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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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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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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 more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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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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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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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.
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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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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