Marya Mannes

Journalist

1904-11-14

Books by Marya Mannes

Subverse
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Last rights
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Out of my time
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Quotes by Marya Mannes

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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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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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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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
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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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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.
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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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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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow, The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
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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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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 process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
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