Marya Mannes Short Quotes

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Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

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

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There's always a job for an engineer
(But nobody wants a poet).

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

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

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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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Long before Playboy, Woman was not the sum of her parts: her parts were her sum.

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Wit has a deadly aim and it is possible to prick a large pretense with a small pin.

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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

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

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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

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Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

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

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

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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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All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

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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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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

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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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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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Money is not an aphrodisiac; the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

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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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The suppression of civil liberties is to many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

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