Quotes by Mary McCarthy

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

“I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into so...”

“Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."(on Lillian Hellman)”

“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and the...”

“In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.”

“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”

“Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.”

“I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.”

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

“The happy ending is our national belief.”

“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 trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.”

“In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.”

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

“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)”

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

“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 trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.”

“In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.”

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