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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
"The door to success may be in front of you, but you still have to open it."
"Be perceptive. Be progressive. Be proactive. Be productive."
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
"Do what you want that works."
"After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is."
"But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication."
Explore more quotes by Mary McCarthy
"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
"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."
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
"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."
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
"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."
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