Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
Marya MannesThe curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Marya MannesThe art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.
Marya Mannesflirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.
Marya Mannes