+ A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Elephants, Forget, Novelists, 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
+ We are the hero of our own story. Feraz Zeid, September 26, 2023December 26, 2023, Mary McCarthy, Hero, Inspirational Life, Self-esteem, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ The relation between life and literature – a final antimony – is one of mutual plagiarism. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Finals, Literature, Plagiarism, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
+ love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary McCarthy, Common, Ordinary, Passion, 0 - Mary McCarthy Writer · USA
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. - François Rabelais Author · France
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them. - Jean Plaidy Author · England
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
