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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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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
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The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp necklines plunge jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.
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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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We are the hero of our own story.
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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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What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
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It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
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If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil never anticipate it.
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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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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The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.
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What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
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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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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
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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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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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America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.
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