Marya Mannes Quotes - Page 4

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

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Liberty, Matter

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• No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

  Marya Mannes

  Faith, Christian, Men

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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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  Dream, Romantic Love, Reality

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

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• Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

  Marya Mannes

  Mind, Age, Desire

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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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  Sex, War, Compassion

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• It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

  Marya Mannes

  Children, Television, Damage

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

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  Expression, Desire, Admission

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

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

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  Men, Race, Greed

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

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• In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

  Marya Mannes

  Love Is, Games, Dating

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• fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

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  Fear, Superstitions, Bogs

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• Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

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  Beach, Men, Land

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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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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  Office, Syntax, Language

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

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  Gratitude, Attitude, Aids

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

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Sometimes, Function

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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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  Race, People, Car

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

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  Knowing, Feelings, Intuition

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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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  New York, Voice, Diversity

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

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• All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

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  New York, Men, Voice

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• performance is an act of faith.

  Marya Mannes

  Performances

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• flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

  Marya Mannes

  Sex, Men, Fire

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

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