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Letter "M" » Mary McCarthy Quotes
«Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
«In violence, we forget who we are»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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Violence
«We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, 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.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
«You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex»
Author: Mary McCarthy
«In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality»
«People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.»
«Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism»
«To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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American history, American System, civics, Happy ending, identify, instructed, modern history, modern world, nonconformity, passionately, politically, quarrels, rebellious, straining, They Live, the system
«Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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anti-Semitism, anti, dallies, dally, draw near, enlightened, horrible, immune, infection, infections, scientific spirit, Semitism, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, supposedly, The Vapors, vapor, vapors
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