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Long before Playboy, Woman was not the sum of her parts: her parts were her sum.
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To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).
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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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A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.
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The overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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Marya Mannes
Born:
November 14, 1904
Died:
September 13, 1990
(aged 85)
Bio:
Marya Mannes was an American author and critic, known for her caustic but insightful observations of American life. Mannes also wrote under the pen name of, "Sec."
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