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Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

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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love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
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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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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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most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know it made them feel ignorant.
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If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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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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We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
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Driving a car, you are in danger of killing walking or standing, of being killed.
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Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.
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We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
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In violence, we forget who we are
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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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Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
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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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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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