"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
― Marya Mannes
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Great
More From Marya Mannes
- "Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
- "In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
- "The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
More In Great
- "Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you’re better than you really are."― David Cone
- "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."― Jane Austen
- "You can’t fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that’s got nothing to do with it. It’s how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."― Etta James