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The idea of Macbeth as a cons...

The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The relation between life and...

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Proscription, martial law, th...

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

You know what my favourite qu...

You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Yet friendship, I believe, is...

Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

With extramarital courtship, ...

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

There are no new truths, but ...

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

... the average Catholic perc...

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Is it really so difficult to ...

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.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The American character looks ...

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.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

In politics, it seems, retrea...

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

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Europe is the unfinished nega...

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

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

You musn't force sex to do th...

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

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People with bad consciences a...

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

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I suppose everyone continues ...

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

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In violence, we forget who we...

In violence, we forget who we are.

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The labor of keeping house is...

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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The theater is the only branc...

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 155 quotes

Bureaucracy, the rule of no o...

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

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The suspense of a novel is no...

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 155 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....