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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.
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 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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Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.
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We are the hero of our own story.
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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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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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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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My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
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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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For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
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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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Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
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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 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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A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
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most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know it made them feel ignorant.
Mary McCarthy
Driving a car, you are in danger of killing walking or standing, of being killed.
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