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
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?
passion long dying
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.
war artist vision
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
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.
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.