“I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.”
Mary McCarthy
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“… in America … 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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him,then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.”
Mary McCarthy
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“There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. A truthis something that everybody can be shown to know and to have known, as people say, all along.”
Mary McCarthy
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“… the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else’s morality.”
Mary McCarthy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
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“… friendship … is essential to intellectuals. 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
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“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”
Mary Mccarthy
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“In violence we forget who we are.”
Mary Mccarthy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”
Mary Mccarthy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Bureaucracy
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“In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.”
Mary Mccarthy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“The happy ending is our national belief.”
Mary Mccarthy
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“We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.”
Mary Mccarthy
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
