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Mary McCarthy Quotes
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If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
You must force sex to do the work of love and love to do the work of sex.
In any work that is truly creative, I believe, the writer cannot be omniscient in advance about the effects that he proposes to produce. The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
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.
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.
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Love Quote
Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Truth Quote
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Motivational Quote
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Life Quote
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
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