"The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer……" — Mary McCarthy
"The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real."
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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 Canals Quotes
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one of 103 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
— Julie Burchill
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The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.
— Larry Ziegler
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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
— Mark Tobey
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The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken…
— Cynthia Heimel
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People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the…
— Philip Larkin
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While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is…
— Derek Parfit
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Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste,…
— John Green
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Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump…
— Steven Morrissey
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of…
— William Howard Taft
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