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most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know it made them feel ignorant.
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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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
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The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.
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It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
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We are the hero of our own story.
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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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To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.
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Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
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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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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
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If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil never anticipate it.
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...the tourist Venice is Venice.
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What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
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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 theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
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In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the knowledge, seems sufficiently final.
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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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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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