Mary McCarthy quotes and words of wisdom |  | "If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you
immediately understand that he is going to do something bad." | |  | Found in the topic Reality.
| | | "The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American
life is ... that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic
point of view, intolerable ... the food we eat, the cramped apartments ...
the crowded subways.... American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a
perpetual assault of the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism,
out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it." | | | Found in the topic Unsorted.
| | | "In violence, we forget who we are." | | | Found in the topic Vigilant.
| | | "We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in
other words, we are the hero of our own story." | | | Found in the topic Hero.
| | | "An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering,
restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question." | | | Found in the topic Injustice.
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Interesting Quotes
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine.J.B.S. Haldane
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitzer - French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)
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