"I am for the ones who represent sense,……" — Mary McCarthy
"I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen."
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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 Austen Quotes
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Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It…
— Meg Cabot
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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen,…
— E. M. Delafield
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
— Edward Abbey
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If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening…
— Roddy Doyle
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane…
— Gillian Flynn
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There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote…
— Margaret Drabble
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Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no…
— Leslie Fiedler
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Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle,…
— Ronald Blythe
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To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune…
— Bruce Feirstein
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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
— George Saintsbury
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