American - Author | June 21, 1912 - October 25, 1989
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
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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.
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
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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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We are the hero of our own story.
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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
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