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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist as long as she manages also to be a good wife, mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, unaggressive.
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Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?
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The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.
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A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
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Euthanasia... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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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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