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Letter "M" » Mary McCarthy Quotes
«I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.»
Author: Mary McCarthy | Keywords: plum, plums
«To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.»
Author: Mary McCarthy | Keywords: disesteem, disesteemed
«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.»
Author: Mary McCarthy | Keywords: flash
«In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.»
Author: Mary McCarthy | Keywords: considerations, shameful
«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.»
«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 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.»
Author: Mary McCarthy | Keywords: branch, canasta, cared
«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.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
«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.»
«A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.»

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