Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthywas an American novelist, critic and political activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 June 1912
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
rights pleasure states
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.
venice tourists
...the tourist Venice is Venice.
appearance cultivation old-money
Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
children memorable people
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
race racism evil
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
best-love sex force
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
force love work
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
america american-author unfinished
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
hippie law marketing
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
history house nonchalance
For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.
austen jane
I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.
life character views
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable . . . the food we eat, the cramped apartments . . . the crowded subways. . . . American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault of the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
elephants novelists forget
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
europe america negative
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof