Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Congress Copy Share Image
The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make… — Mary McCarthy Advertising Copy Share Image
it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends. — Mary McCarthy Easier Copy Share Image
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit,… — Mary McCarthy Accepted Copy Share Image
“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants… — Mary McCarthy America Copy Share Image
For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer. — Mary McCarthy Authority Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will… — Mary McCarthy Books Copy Share Image
Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils. — Mary McCarthy Beast Copy Share Image
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about… — Mary McCarthy Books Copy Share Image
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. — Mary McCarthy Baskets Copy Share Image
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it… — Mary McCarthy Character Copy Share Image
The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances… — Mary McCarthy Character education Copy Share Image
The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist. — Mary McCarthy Facts Copy Share Image
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the… — Mary McCarthy Art Copy Share Image
The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts… — Mary McCarthy Belts Copy Share Image
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a… — Mary McCarthy Activity Copy Share Image
I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen. — Mary McCarthy Austen Copy Share Image
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed… — Mary McCarthy Behavior Copy Share Image
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life. — Mary McCarthy Hazards Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. — Mary McCarthy Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had… — Mary McCarthy Courtship Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Adventure Copy Share Image
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure… — Mary McCarthy Bounds Copy Share Image
What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? — Mary McCarthy Fall Copy Share Image
