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Mary McCarthy Quotes
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
Every word she [Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake (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 (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
You musn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
Scratch a socialist and you find a snob (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
It’s easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
In violence, we forget who we are (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
The happy ending is our national belief (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
My occupational hazard is that I can’t help plagiarizing from real life (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished equation (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 (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
As happens with sports and hobbies, his enjoyment was solemnized by expertise, the rites of comparing, collating, a half-deliberate parody of scholarship like the recitation of batting averages (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
He was deferential, ingratiating, concerned for your pleasure, like a waiter with a tray of French pastry in his hand (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets (Mary McCarthy Quotes)
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