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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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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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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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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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The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
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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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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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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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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
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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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All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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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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In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
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