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Mary McCarthy Quotes

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me Picture Quote #1

Most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant Picture Quote #1

If you want to be your own master... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it Picture Quote #1

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends Picture Quote #1

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain Picture Quote #1

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races Picture Quote #1

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Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character Picture Quote #1

Love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel Picture Quote #1

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful Picture Quote #1

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act Picture Quote #1

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people Picture Quote #1

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting Picture Quote #1

The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand Picture Quote #1

What’s the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? Picture Quote #1

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If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything Picture Quote #1

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past Picture Quote #1

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world Picture Quote #1

The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness Picture Quote #1

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The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant (Mary McCarthy Quotes) If you want to be your own master... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it (Mary McCarthy Quotes) The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends (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 (Mary McCarthy Quotes) For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel (Mary McCarthy Quotes) The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful (Mary McCarthy Quotes) On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act (Mary McCarthy Quotes) From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people (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 (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 (Mary McCarthy Quotes) Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting (Mary McCarthy Quotes) The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance (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 (Mary McCarthy Quotes) I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand (Mary McCarthy Quotes) What’s the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? (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 (Mary McCarthy Quotes) America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past (Mary McCarthy Quotes) The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world (Mary McCarthy Quotes) The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness (Mary McCarthy Quotes)

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