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Category: Mary McCarthy

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Eye, Which, Every

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Equality, Enjoy, Facts

Every word she writes is a lie including ‘and’ and ‘the’.

writers, writing

In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.

science, technology

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

liberty, human, rights

Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.

The happy ending is our national belief.

Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

government, rule

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”(on Lillian Hellman)

authors, insults, lies

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

perspective, religion, understanding-oneself-and-others

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

inspirational, mary-mccarthy, quotes

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

perspective, religion, understanding-oneself-and-others