More - Mary McCarthy Quotes

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

 American Author

Our mission is to provide legal services to impoverished individuals, and advance the rights and protections of the immigrant population.

Mary McCarthy

 Population

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

Mary McCarthy

 American Author

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

Mary McCarthy

 Bureaucracy

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

Mary McCarthy

 

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Mary McCarthy

 Catholicism Past

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

 American Author Art

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Mary McCarthy

 Forgiveness

In violence, we forget who we are

Mary McCarthy

 

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

 American Author