Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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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.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.
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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.
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I just know that wherever he is, he knows she's doing well and knows what a powerful impact he had on her and he's proud of her. She feels a strong conviction to carry on, stay sober and work hard in his memory.
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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
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
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