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All Quotes by author - Marya Mannes

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

" By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. "

" For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. "

" I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society. "

" 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. "

" In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude. "

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

" 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. "

" It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere. "

" Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. "

" Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. "

" The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. "

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

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

" Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. "

" Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. "

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