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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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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.
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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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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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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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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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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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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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