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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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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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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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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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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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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 know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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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 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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.
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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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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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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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.
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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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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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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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