American - Author | June 21, 1912 - October 25, 1989
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.
Mary McCarthy
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Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
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In violence, we forget who we are.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
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The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
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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.
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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
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Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
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