“Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.”
Birds of Americs (1965), "Epistle from Mother Carey's Chicken"
Mary McCarthy: 79 citations0 J'aime
Mary McCarthy: Citations en anglais
Mary McCarthy livre Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Source: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), Ch. 1
Source: Intellectual Memoirs: New York 1936–1938 (1992), Ch. 2
First published in Partisan Review (July-August 1941)
Source: The Company She Keeps (1942), Ch. 3 "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt", p. 70.
"The Hue and Cry"
The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays (1970)
“People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.”
"The Contagion of Ideas", p. 54
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
“I combine concrete cynicism with a sort of vague optimism.”
As quoted in "Lady with a Switchblade" in LIFE magazine (20 September 1963)
Source: Intellectual Memoirs: New York 1936–1938 (1992), Ch. 2
"America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub", p. 18
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
"America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub", p. 17
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
“To be disesteemed by people you don’t have much respect for is not the worst fate.”
New York Times (27 August 1984)
“[B]ureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”
"The Vita Activa", pp. 161–162
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
"The Contagion of Ideas", p. 44. A speech delivered to a group of teachers (Summer 1952); not previously published
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
"The Vita Activa", p. 158. First published in The New Yorker (18 October 1958)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
Source: How I Grew (1987), Ch. 9, last lines of book
Source: How I Grew (1987), Ch. 8
Source: How I Grew (1987), Ch. 1
“You never learn a language unless you use it.”
Mary McCarthy livre Cannibals and Missionaries
Source: Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), Ch. 11
Mary McCarthy livre Cannibals and Missionaries
From Sophie Weil's diary in "Envoi"
Cannibals and Missionaries (1979)
“Ars longa vita brevis est was a truth that could not be argued with in the Eternal City.”
"Joy to the World"
Birds of America (1971)
"Round Table, with the Damsel Parcenet"
Birds of America (1971)
"Epistle from Mother Carey's Chicken"
Birds of America (1971)
If you start an argument with yourself, that makes two people at least, and when you have two people, one of them starts appeasing the other.
"Epistle from Mother Carey's Chicken"
Peter quotes 'Conscience doth make cowards of us all' from the 'To be, or not to be' speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3, scene 1.
Birds of America (1971)
Mary McCarthy livre The Group
Mr Schneider in Ch. 12
The Group (1963)
