Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.Mary McCarthy
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it they expose it in its process rather than of it they expose it in its underwear.
Mary McCarthy
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.
Mary McCarthy
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.
Mary McCarthy
In violence, we forget who we are.
Mary McCarthy
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.
Mary McCarthy
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