What did Mary McCarthy mean by: I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen. - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA Copy
+ Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024February 9, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Action, Cowardice, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Rebel, Self, Strong, 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
+ Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Career, Europe, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Hero, religious, Spiritual Life, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ 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
+ A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Diversity, Justice, Tennis, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Children, Forgiveness, Women, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
