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There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

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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What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
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Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.
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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.
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The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
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Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
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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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Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.
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Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.
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The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.
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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.
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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.
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Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
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We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
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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 all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
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...the tourist Venice is Venice.
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For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.
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