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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, t

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. – Marya Mannes

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The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. – Marya Mannes

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