Marya Mannes
Marya Mannes
Marya Manneswas an American author and critic, known for her caustic but insightful observations of American life. Mannes also wrote under the pen name of, "Sec."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 November 1904
CountryUnited States of America
equality white racism
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.
men mind intellectual
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
knowing feelings intuition
Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.
team heart technology
the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.
able dignity life-is
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
money eye desire
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
artist sight ego
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
communication people political
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
making-money neighbor invoke
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
feelings feels knows
You cannot know what you do not feel.
office syntax language
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
desire ends escalation
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
mean men might
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).
mean two differences
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?