"Every word she writes is a lie, including…" — Mary McCarthy
"Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the.""
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81 Quotes by Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy has 81 quotes on this site.
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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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More Every Word Quotes
This quote is filed under Every Word Quotes,
one of 406 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of…
— Hosea Ballou
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
— Samuel Beckett
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I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single…
— Truman Capote
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Every word written is a victory against death.
— Unknown Author
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
— Martin Luther
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Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
— Louise Hay
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Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our…
— Ole Hallesby
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When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire,…
— John of Kronstadt
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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for…
— Albert Einstein
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A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she…
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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