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Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy föddes den 21 juni 1912 och dog den 25 oktober 1989 - US writer critic
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The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

The happy ending is our national belief.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

They're looking for a place to hide because they're so cold. It could be a pile of anything.

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

We are the hero of our own story.

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