Marya Mannes Quotes - Page 3

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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 across the map turn red.

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  War, Heart, Men

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• It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

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  Privilege, Moments, Awareness

  Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

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• You cannot know what you do not feel.

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  Feelings, Feels, Knows

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• The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

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  Miracle, Humans, Human Beings

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

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  Leaks

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

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  Two, May, Chance

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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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  Heart, Men, Miracle

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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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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  Weapons, Barbarians, Fusion

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• You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

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  Integrity, Sacrifice, Honor

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• You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

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  Equality, White, Racism

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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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  Forgiveness, Poor

  Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

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• People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.

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  Mean, Opportunity, Space

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• A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

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  Sobriety, Musical, Passionate

  Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”

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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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  Passion, Long, Dying

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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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  Art, Successful, Skills

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• [The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

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  Ocean, Fighting, Self

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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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  Mean, Men, Might

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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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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  Mean, Two, Differences

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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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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  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

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  Success, Real, Anxiety

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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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  Doe, Moments, Reducing

  Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”

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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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  Art, Philosophy, Sight

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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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  Eye, Painting, Moments

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

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  Men, Our Society, Fellowship

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

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  Daughter, Orchids, Ribbons

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