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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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Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the…
— Milan Kundera
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Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things…
— Kristen Britain
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
— Mary McCarthy
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Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out…
— James F. Amos
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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ''tomorrow'' on the calendars of fools.…
— Og Mandino
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