Mary McCarthy Quotes
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.
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Justice is revenge.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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You'll change inside when you realize The world comes to life and everything's bright From beginning to end when you have a friend by your side.
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I am not gonna die because I failed as someone else. I am gonna succeed as myself. And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!
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What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.
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Gotta admit, it's kind of nice being surrounded by amazing beauty products 24/7.
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When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.
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The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.
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But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
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I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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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.
