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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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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It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
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All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.
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The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
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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.
