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
business real thinking
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.
dream romantic-love reality
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
dream real moving
on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.
success real anxiety
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.
reality our-society accepted
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.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.
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
change fear progress
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.