What did Mary McCarthy mean by: Be truthful… and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards. - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA Copy
+ Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Apes, Literature, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ What’s the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Falling In Love, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak. Feraz Zeid, July 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Mary McCarthy, Anarchy, Moral, Weak, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Appearance, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Making Love, Sex, Talking, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ In violence, we forget who we are Feraz Zeid, September 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Mary McCarthy, Be Who You Are, Domestic Violence, War, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ it’s easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Enemy, Forgiveness, Forgiving, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ You mustn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Force, Love, Sex, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. - Luci Shaw
Don’t apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt Essayist · England
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. - Jean Tirole
The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn’t in the cards, I guess. - Jeanette MacDonald
Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author