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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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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
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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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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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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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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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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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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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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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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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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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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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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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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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