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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of e

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

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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes

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Feminism
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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. – Marya Mannes

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The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams. – Suzanne Fields

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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. – Nelson Mandela

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams. – Aeschylus

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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams. – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence

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