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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

Mary McCarthy

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Mary McCarthy
Age: 77 †
Born: 1912
Born: June 21
Died: 1989
Died: October 25
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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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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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It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
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To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.
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For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
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Driving a car, you are in danger of killing walking or standing, of being killed.
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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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Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
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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 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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