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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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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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My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
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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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Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
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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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