Top 120 Mary McCarthy Quotes (2024 Update)
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Mary McCarthy Quote: “My occupational hazard is that I can’t help plagiarizing from real life.”

101. “My occupational hazard is that I can’t help plagiarizing from real life.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.”

102. “You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.”

103. “He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.”

104. “The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people’s hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did.”

105. “Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people’s hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.”

106. “Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “They had caught a glimpse of themselves in a mirror, a mirror placed at a turning point where they had expected to see daylight and freedom, and though each of them, individually, was far from believing himself perfect, all had counted on the virtues of others to rescue them themselves.”

107. “They had caught a glimpse of themselves in a mirror, a mirror placed at a turning point where they had expected to see daylight and freedom, and though each of them, individually, was far from believing himself perfect, all had counted on the virtues of others to rescue them themselves.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.”

108. “America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “Not knaves, fools.”

109. “Not knaves, fools.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.”

110. “Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”

111. “In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her highly unnecessary, like some legal routine or the difficulty of getting passports. Her interest in expiation quickly vanished in the face of its actuality.”

112. “She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her highly unnecessary, like some legal routine or the difficulty of getting passports. Her interest in expiation quickly vanished in the face of its actuality.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.”

113. “Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one’s heart.”

114. “The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one’s heart.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.”

115. “The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “I mean exactly that,” Mr. Davison retorted. “You’ve hit the nail smack on the head. We pay a price for having money. People in my position” – he turned to Kay – “have ‘privilege.’ That’s what I read in the Nation and the New Republic.” Mrs. Davison nodded. “Good,” said Mr. Davison. “Now listen. The fellow who’s got privilege gives up some rights or ought to.”

116. “I mean exactly that,” Mr. Davison retorted. “You’ve hit the nail smack on the head. We pay a price for having money. People in my position” – he turned to Kay – “have ‘privilege.’ That’s what I read in the Nation and the New Republic.” Mrs. Davison nodded. “Good,” said Mr. Davison. “Now listen. The fellow who’s got privilege gives up some rights or ought to.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.”

117. “Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “It came to her that he was going to leave without making love to her. This would mean they had made love for the last time this morning. But that did not count: this morning they did not know it was for the last time. When the door shut behind him, she still could not believe it. “It can’t end like this,” she said to herself over and over, drumming with her knuckles on her mouth to keep from screaming.”

118. “It came to her that he was going to leave without making love to her. This would mean they had made love for the last time this morning. But that did not count: this morning they did not know it was for the last time. When the door shut behind him, she still could not believe it. “It can’t end like this,” she said to herself over and over, drumming with her knuckles on her mouth to keep from screaming.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.”

119. “Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “Every subsequent moral crisis of my life, moreover, has had precisely the pattern of this struggle over the first Communion, I have battled, usually without avail, against a temptation to do something which only I knew was bad, being swept on by a need to preserve outward appearances and to live up to other people’s expectations of me.”

120. “Every subsequent moral crisis of my life, moreover, has had precisely the pattern of this struggle over the first Communion, I have battled, usually without avail, against a temptation to do something which only I knew was bad, being swept on by a need to preserve outward appearances and to live up to other people’s expectations of me.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention.”

121. “She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “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 behavior.”

122. “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 behavior.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.”

123. “We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.”

124. “The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.”

125. “A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.”

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Mary McCarthy Quote: “We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.”

126. “We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.”

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