"Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also……" — Mary McCarthy
"Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards."
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81 Quotes by Mary McCarthy
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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…
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in…
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was…
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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…
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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…
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
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