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Mary McCarthy

"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."

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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."

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Angie karan

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
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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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"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
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"People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children."
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."
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