Marya Mannes

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma…

— Marya Mannes

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

— Marya Mannes

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive…

— Marya Mannes

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have…

— Marya Mannes

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the…

— Marya Mannes

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

— Marya Mannes

the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought…

— Marya Mannes

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

— Marya Mannes

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

— Marya Mannes

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

— Marya Mannes

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same…

— Marya Mannes

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

— Marya Mannes

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed…

— Marya Mannes

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

— Marya Mannes

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

— Marya Mannes

The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm…

— Marya Mannes

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

— Marya Mannes

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

— Marya Mannes

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to…

— Marya Mannes

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

— Marya Mannes

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of…

— Marya Mannes

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

— Marya Mannes

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

— Marya Mannes

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

— Marya Mannes

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

— Marya Mannes