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
race people car
the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making
communication people political
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
party thinking people
certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.
communication people progress
It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
horse car people
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
across along bleed borders dread hearts ink judicial lines map men red scratched strangers turn watch
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
busy difference extra full giant kidding tall
Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell?
age american-journalist
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
american-journalist faucet leave listen
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
actual american-journalist great surest verbal
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
eye painting moments
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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.
lasts next hold-me
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
change fear progress
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
sex men fire
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.