Mary McCarthy

Born :21 June 1912

Tribute :25 October 1989

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Mary Mccarthy born on 21th June 1912, and passed away on 25th October 1989, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 77 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 26 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Mary McCarthy

Timeless words and powerful thoughts from Mary McCarthy - discover the wisdom, inspiration, and voice behind the quotes that continue to resonate

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

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.

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.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

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.

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.

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

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

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 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.

In violence, we forget who we are.

We are the hero of our own story.

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.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

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.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

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.

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