"We are the hero of our own story." — Mary McCarthy
"We are the hero of our own story."
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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 Healing Quotes
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious…
— Sai Baba
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and…
— Wendell Berry
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
— Erma Bombeck
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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
— Susie Bright
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his…
— Samuel Butler
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
— Lord Byron
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Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's…
— Nicolas Cage
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