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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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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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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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Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.
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What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
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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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Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
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If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil never anticipate it.
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Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
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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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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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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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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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In violence, we forget who we are
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... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.
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The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.
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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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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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Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.
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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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