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Marya Mannes (born November 14, 1904 in New York, NY, died September 13, 1990 in San Francisco, CA) (also known as Maria von Heimburg Mannes) was an American author and critic, known for her caustic but insightful observations of American life

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All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

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But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women

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Generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal.

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Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.

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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

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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.

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Plan your work, work your plan.

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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

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The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

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