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Mary McCarthy

"People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events."

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