Quotes by : Mary McCarthy

The happy ending is our national belief.

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

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

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

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

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

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

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.