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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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Mary Therese McCarthy
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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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It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
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A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
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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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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
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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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Life for the European is a career for the American it is a hazard.
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...the tourist Venice is Venice.
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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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We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
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For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
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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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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.
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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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What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.
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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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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
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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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