Mary McCarthy Quotes

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by th...

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift ...

This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the ...

Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our ...

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

The happy ending is our national belief.

Every word she writes is a lie including 'and' and 'the'.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.