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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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most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know it made them feel ignorant.
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Driving a car, you are in danger of killing walking or standing, of being killed.
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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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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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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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The happy ending is our national belief.
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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.
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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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Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.
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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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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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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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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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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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