"For me, in fact, the mark of the……" — Mary McCarthy
"For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado."
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Mary McCarthy
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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 Deposits Quotes
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's…
— Bob Beauprez
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Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car,…
— Elayne Boosler
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
— Alton Brown
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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed…
— John Calvin
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Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to…
— Graydon Carter
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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss…
— Woody Allen
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The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits…
— Charles Kuralt
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Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how…
— Roderick Murchison
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The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . .…
— Thomas Jefferson
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