The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary McCarthy
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.
Mary McCarthy
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
We are the hero of our own story.
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.
Mary McCarthy
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Mary McCarthy
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