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Mary McCarthy quotes: There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality. The average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.
Mary McCarthy quotes: You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'."(on Lillian Hellman) Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'."
(on Lillian Hellman)
Mary McCarthy quotes: He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over. He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over.
Mary McCarthy quotes: You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad. Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.
Mary McCarthy quotes: It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants. It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.
Mary McCarthy quotes: In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak. In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Mary McCarthy quotes: I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen. I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it. Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.
Mary McCarthy quotes: People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Be truthful ... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards. Be truthful ... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils. Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Scratch a socialist and you find a snob. Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Mary McCarthy quotes: If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything. If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable. Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
Mary McCarthy quotes: What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
Mary McCarthy quotes: She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains. She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.
Mary McCarthy quotes: We are the hero of our own story. We are the hero of our own story.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins. Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.
Mary McCarthy quotes: She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There. She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.
Mary McCarthy quotes: His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground. His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground.
Mary McCarthy quotes: It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief. It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
Mary McCarthy quotes: For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer. For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
Mary McCarthy quotes: From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people ... From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people ...
Mary McCarthy quotes: If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it. If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state. Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul. The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.
Mary McCarthy quotes: In violence we forget who we are. In violence we forget who we are.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.
Mary McCarthy quotes: A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex. Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist. Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.
Mary McCarthy quotes: A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve. A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do. Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
Mary McCarthy quotes: I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
Mary McCarthy quotes: You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex - that's quite a thought, isn't it? You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex - that's quite a thought, isn't it?
Mary McCarthy quotes: Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.
Mary McCarthy quotes: We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub. We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain. Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
Mary McCarthy quotes: On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act. On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.
Mary McCarthy quotes: To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate. To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.
Mary McCarthy quotes: In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility. Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. Love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
Mary McCarthy quotes: As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer. As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.
Mary McCarthy quotes: He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm. He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.
Mary McCarthy quotes: You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese. You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant. Most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did. Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did.
Mary McCarthy quotes: What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
Mary McCarthy quotes: In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Mary McCarthy quotes: I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness. I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.
Mary McCarthy quotes: For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The tourist Venice is Venice. The tourist Venice is Venice.
Mary McCarthy quotes: If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed. Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism. The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
Mary McCarthy quotes: My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life. My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting. Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.
Mary McCarthy quotes: We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words you are the hero of your own story. We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist. The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation. Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable. The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.
Mary McCarthy quotes: Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The happy ending is our national belief. The happy ending is our national belief.
Mary McCarthy quotes: The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends. The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.
Mary McCarthy quotes: An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Mary McCarthy quotes: She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention. She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention.

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