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Mary McCarthy has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In violence, we forget who we are
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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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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but…
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at…
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end…
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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…
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed…
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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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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause…
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is…
— Walter Bagehot
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something…
— Emily Bronte
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It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
— Jack Nicklaus
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I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale!…
— Tom Petty
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
— Tacitus
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
— Laurence Sterne
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There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half…
— John Keats
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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
— Victor Hugo
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Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is,…
— Israel Albert Horowitz
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You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.
— Len Evans
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When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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