"Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering……" — Mary McCarthy
"Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon."
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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 Agate Quotes
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one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to…
— James Bertolino
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Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let…
— Ezra Pound
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Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned…
— Janet Fitch
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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she…
— William Shakespeare
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The first pair Opal and Amber are, Agate sings in B flat, the wolf avatar, A duet-solutio! - with Aquamarine.…
— Kerstin Gier
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James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to…
— Donald Sinden
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