50 ordspråk av Mary McCarthy

US  Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy föddes den 21 juni 1912 och dog den 25 oktober 1989 - amerikansk författare och samhällsdebattör.
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en Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
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en In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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en Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
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en The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
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en 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.
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en I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self.
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en 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.
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en We are the hero of our own story.
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en Climbing up in the attic.
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en I kept pouring water over her head.
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en I'm not worried about my ring, or my house, even though it's not insured. I just want to get to my daughter's house in Georgia.
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en 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.
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en I just know that wherever he is, he knows she's doing well and knows what a powerful impact he had on her ? and he's proud of her. She feels a strong conviction to carry on, stay sober and work hard in his memory.
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en They're looking for a place to hide because they're so cold. It could be a pile of anything.
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en Our mission is to provide legal services to impoverished individuals, and advance the rights and protections of the immigrant population.
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