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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.
— Marya Mannes
The Republicans think they have a corner on morality ...
— Marya Mannes
The greatest miracle of all, the human being.
— Marya Mannes
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
— Marya Mannes
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.
— Marya Mannes
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
— Marya Mannes
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
— Marya Mannes
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.
— Marya Mannes
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
— Marya Mannes
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
— Marya Mannes
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
— Marya Mannes
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
— Marya Mannes
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
— Marya Mannes
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
— Marya Mannes
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
— Marya Mannes
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
— Marya Mannes
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
— Marya Mannes
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
— Marya Mannes
Infants are interesting only to their parents.
— Marya Mannes
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
— Marya Mannes
You cannot know what you do not feel.
— Marya Mannes
Performance is an act of faith.
— Marya Mannes
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
— Marya Mannes
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
— Marya Mannes
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
— Marya Mannes
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
— Marya Mannes
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
— Marya Mannes
The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making
— Marya Mannes
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
— Marya Mannes
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
— Marya Mannes
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
— Marya Mannes
Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.
— Marya Mannes
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
— Marya Mannes
Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.
— Marya Mannes
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
— Marya Mannes
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
— Marya Mannes
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
— Marya Mannes
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
— Marya Mannes
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
— Marya Mannes
