Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Mary Mccarthy quotes, Mary Mccarthy sayings, and Mary Mccarthy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.Mary Mccarthy
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In violence we forget who we are.Mary Mccarthy
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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.Mary Mccarthy
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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
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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.Mary Mccarthy
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A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.Mary Mccarthy
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In violence, we forget who we are.Mary Mccarthy
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.Mary Mccarthy
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In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.Mary Mccarthy
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With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.Mary Mccarthy
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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.Mary Mccarthy
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Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.Mary Mccarthy
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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.Mary Mccarthy
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Any Portugese town looks like bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.Mary Mccarthy
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The theatre seems to be chronically twenty years behind, regardless of realism, as the relation of Beckett to Joyce, for example show. The theatre feeds on the novel; never vice versa: think of the hundreds of dramatizations of novels, and then try to think of a book that was "novelized" for a play. There is not even a word for it. Mary Mccarthy
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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