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Mary McCarthy

"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."

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"Politicians look for interests not people."

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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

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"No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens."

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"In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign."

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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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Mary McCarthy
"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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Mary McCarthy
"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

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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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Mary McCarthy
"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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Mary McCarthy
"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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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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Mary McCarthy
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."

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"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."

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"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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Mary McCarthy
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

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