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Mary McCarthy Quotes

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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) Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished  (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) For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) It’s easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Scratch a socialist and you find a snob  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake  (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  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night’s sleep  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora’s marine nature  (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.  (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) This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l’oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?  (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Friendship... Is essential to intellectuals. 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)
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