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Mary McCarthy quotes

American Author June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989

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You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy quote: "You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the..."
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy quote: "What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly..."
What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? Mary McCarthy
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. Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy quote: "She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only..."
She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There. Mary McCarthy
Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist. Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy quote: "Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a..."
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. Mary McCarthy
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. Mary McCarthy
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. Mary McCarthy
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. Mary McCarthy
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. Mary McCarthy
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. Mary McCarthy
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. Mary McCarthy
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand. Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy quote: "Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Mary McCarthy

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