"What I really do is take real plums……" — Mary McCarthy

"What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake."

— Mary McCarthy

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81 Quotes by Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In violence, we forget who we are
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in…
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was…
The happy ending is our national belief.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or…
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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 Cake Quotes

This quote is filed under Cake Quotes, one of 652 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. — Dave Barry
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web… — Mario Batali
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little… — Catherine Bell
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until… — Sara Blakely
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable… — James Boswell
There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within… — Ron Ben-Israel
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just… — Ray Charles
When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a… — Julia Child
Let them eat cake. — Marie Antoinette
Gotta get it, even if it's in the worse way. Got cake like everyday my birthday. — Lil Wayne
Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the… — Benjamin Boukpeti

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