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
television radio violence
television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.
judgment cynicism ultimate
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
sound sincere
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
money liberty matter
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
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.
performances
performance is an act of faith.
sobriety musical passionate
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.
grace infinite great-music
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.
party writing thinking
I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
weapons barbarians fusion
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
solitude important detachment
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
likes vices caught
Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.
forgiveness poor
One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
expression desire admission
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.