Behavior Quote by Mary McCarthy

“Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.”

Mary McCarthy

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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

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In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

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Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing…

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Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

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The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

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“She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.”

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America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the…

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The happy ending is our national belief.

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Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

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... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending…

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The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause…

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Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the…

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