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Only Quotes by Mary McCarthy
- In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands…
- 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…
- The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things…
- When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have…
- The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the…
- 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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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle