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

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Women
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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. – Marya Mannes

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Money
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. – Marya Mannes

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Whatever dreams I have wished have come true. – Annette Funicello

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. – Edgar Allan Poe

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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. – T. E. Lawrence

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When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. – Desmond Tutu

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Look at an infantrymans eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. – William Alexander Henry

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I love South American food, and I havent really been down there. I really need a vacation. – Nate Silver

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