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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

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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The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.
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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 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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Driving a car, you are in danger of killing walking or standing, of being killed.
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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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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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For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
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The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
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Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
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it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
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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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It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
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Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
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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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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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The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.
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Life for the European is a career for the American it is a hazard.
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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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If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil never anticipate it.
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