47 ordspråk av Mary McCarthy

US  Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy föddes den June 21st 1912 och dog den 25 October 1989 - US writer critic
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 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.

 If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.

 If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad

 In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

 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?

 In violence, we forget who we are

 In violence, we forget who we are

 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.

 It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

 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.

 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.

 People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

 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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