"Every age has a keyhole to which its…" — Mary McCarthy

"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."

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81 Quotes by Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In violence, we forget who we are
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in…
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was…
The happy ending is our national belief.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or…
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a…
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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