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The suspense of a novel is not...

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

I'm afraid I'm not sufficientl...

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

There are no new truths, but o...

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

If someone tells you he is goi...

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

If one means by style the voic...

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

A society person who is enthus...

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

A good deal of education consi...

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

In verity we are the poor. Thi...

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The American character looks a...

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 all too much a professional air.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Others are to us like the char...

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Modern neurosis began with the...

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Life is a system of recurrent ...

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The happy ending is our nation...

The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

Liberty, as it is conceived by...

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.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

The theater is the only branch...

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

An unrectified case of injusti...

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

You can date the evolving life...

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.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

A novelist is an elephant, but...

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

What I really do is take real ...

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

Mary McCarthy 155 quotes

To be disesteemed by people yo...

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

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...

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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....