What did Mary McCarthy mean by: A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. Mary McCarthy Writer · USA Copy
+ Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary McCarthy, Connection, Intimacy, Vulnerability, 0 Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary McCarthy, Education, Improvement, Unlearning, 0 Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ The relation between life and literature – a final antimony – is one of mutual plagiarism. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary McCarthy, Existence, Influence, Reflection, 0 Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ If you want to be your own master … always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary McCarthy, Caution, Independence, Surprise, 0 Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ it’s easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary McCarthy, Betrayal, Forgiveness, Relationships, 0 Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Author, July 20, 2023January 2, 2025, Mary McCarthy, Change, Perspective, Time, 0 Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary McCarthy, Behavior, Consciousness, Imitation, 0 Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary McCarthy, Danger, Mobility, Safety, 0 Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
