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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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Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.
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Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.
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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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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
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Morality did not keep well it required stable conditions it was costly it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
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it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
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The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.
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love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
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The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers suspicion is reserved for friends.
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We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
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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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it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.
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Life for the European is a career for the American it is a hazard.
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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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most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know it made them feel ignorant.
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
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