Marya Mannes Quotes

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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

Marya Mannes
It's never what you say, but how
You make it sound sincere.

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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

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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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Certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

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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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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

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How many wives does your husband have?
My husband, he has three:
One at the office, one in dreams
And me.
How many wives does your husband have?
My husband, he has two:
The imagined woman he married and The true.
How many wives does your husband have?
My husband, he has none:
He's wed to money. That makes less
Than one.

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Borders are scratched across the hearts of men
By strangers with a calm, judicial pen,
And when the borders bleed we watch with dread
The lines of ink along the map turn red.

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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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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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There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

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The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making.

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The great omission in American life is solitude…that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

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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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Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

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In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have — more than any other modern society — avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and — above all — in worth.

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On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

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He had the familiar defense of all those who wield great power in a popular medium: 'We only give the public what it wants —.' It is the most useful, and least valid, reason for having no convictions that I know of.

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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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Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell?

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When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

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In our society to admit inferiority is to be a fool, and to admit superiority is to be an outcast. 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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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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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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Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

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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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There is no trick in being young: it happens to you. But the process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

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