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
retreat language stammering
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.
scratches socialism socialist
Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
incessant labor behinds
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.
venice tourists
...the tourist Venice is Venice.
best-love sex force
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
austen jane
I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.
variation morality uncertain
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
simplicity lines austerity
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.
favourite chaucer quotations
You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.
gardening facts sometimes
The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.
work-out soul mind
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.