All Mary McCarthy Quotes
If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
Mary McCarthy
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
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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.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
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Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
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When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
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