Mary McCarthy Quotes
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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If you want success, be unique.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'
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It is a mistake to travel in the hope of solving one's problems. One merely transports them and is thus forced to endure them among strangers.
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People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.
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Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.
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If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
