50 ordspråk av Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy föddes den 21 juni 1912 och dog den 25 oktober 1989 - US writer critic
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

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.

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.

Labor

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard

Our mission is to provide legal services to impoverished individuals, and advance the rights and protections of the immigrant population.

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.

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.

Movies

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.

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.

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