Marya Mannes Quotes

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Fear has always been a diminisher of life. - Marya Mannes quote.
Fear has always been a diminisher of life.
— Marya Mannes Last Rights: A Case for the Good Death

fear

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal. - Marya Mannes quote.
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
— Marya Mannes But Will It Sell?

generosity

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. - Marya Mannes quote.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
— Marya Mannes Out of My Time

talent timing arrogance

Wit has a deadly aim and it is possible to prick a large pretense with a small pin. - Marya Mannes quote.
Wit has a deadly aim and it is possible to prick a large pretense with a small pin.
— Marya Mannes But Will It Sell?

wit

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes quote.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
— Marya Mannes More in Anger

reason intelligence emotion

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. - Marya Mannes quote.
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
— Marya Mannes More in Anger

art

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. - Marya Mannes quote.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
— Marya Mannes Out of My Time

dreams romance expectation

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. - Marya Mannes quote.
All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another.
— Marya Mannes Out of My Time

war empathy

There is no "trick" in being young: it happens to you.  But the process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. - Marya Mannes quote.
There is no "trick" in being young: it happens to you.  But the process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.
— Marya Mannes More in Anger: Some Opinions, Uncensored and Unteleprompted

maturity youth & age

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. - Marya Mannes quote.
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.
— Marya Mannes

environment

The great omission in American life is solitude...that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. - Marya Mannes quote.
The great omission in American life is solitude...that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
— Marya Mannes Vogue

solitude

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. - Marya Mannes quote.
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.
— Marya Mannes The New York I Know

New York City

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. - Marya Mannes quote.
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.
— Marya Mannes More in Anger

motivation understanding others

Until a child can meet reality, he must live in fantasy. But he must create his own fantasy. And it is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. - Marya Mannes quote.
Until a child can meet reality, he must live in fantasy. But he must create his own fantasy. And it is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
— Marya Mannes More in Anger

television