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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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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
— Jane Austen
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It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the…
— Samuel Johnson
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A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost
— Laozi
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From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread .…
— George Steinbrenner
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You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.
— Albert Einstein
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Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing…
— Mary McCarthy
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There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men…
— H. L. Mencken
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There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the…
— Emily Post
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The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
— Radclyffe Hall
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Anarchism is to see anything nothing , and seeing nothing as something.
— Mohammad MUSTAFA
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