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Mary McCarthy Quotes

«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.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
«In violence, we forget who we are»
Author: Mary McCarthy | About: Violence
«We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.»
«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.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
«You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex»
Author: Mary McCarthy
«In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality»
Author: Mary McCarthy | About: Science | Keywords: banal, democratic, trivial
«People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.»
Author: Mary McCarthy | About: Children, Conscience | Keywords: consciences
«Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism»
Author: Mary McCarthy | About: Bureaucracy | Keywords: bureaucracy, despotism
«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.»
«Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.»

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