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
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We are the hero of our own story.
Mary McCarthy
In violence, we forget who we are.
Mary McCarthy
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
Mary McCarthy
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
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.
Mary McCarthy
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.
Mary McCarthy
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary McCarthy
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American,
Atlantic,
Been,
Buy,
Ever,
Heiress,
Man,
Materialistic,
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Once,
Only,
Really,
She
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