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Mary McCarthy

"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in 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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"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue."

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"Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks."

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"When you make eye contact with another person, you can send thousands of silent messages without even speaking a word. No wonder eye contact can be both a direct form of communication and an elusive attribute at the same time."

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"If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude."

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"Research has shown that smiling releases endorphins-the happy hormones that shift your physiology for improved well-being. When you smile and your eyes crinkle, your body releases chemicals that change the chemistry of your brain, lifting spirits, and reducing pain. Even when it is hard to smile and you are forcing it, positive changes take place in your physiology."

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"There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves."

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"How would your life be different if.You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day.You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same."

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"Some people exert more energy on less important things, some people exert less energy on less important things."

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"Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason."

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"Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness."

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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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"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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"You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex."
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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."
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"People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children."
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"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self."
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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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"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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