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What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
Mary McCarthy
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Mary McCarthy
Age: 77 †
Born: 1912
Born: June 21
Died: 1989
Died: October 25
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Mary Therese McCarthy
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The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp necklines plunge jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
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love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
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We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.
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Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
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Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.
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Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
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All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.
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this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.
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... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.
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The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.
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The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
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it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.
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most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know it made them feel ignorant.
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Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
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The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.
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