Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. - Mary Mccarthy
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
- Mary Mccarthy
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state. - Mary Mccarthy
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.
The happy ending is our national belief. - Mary Mccarthy
The happy ending is our national belief.
Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad. - Mary Mccarthy
Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of G… - Mary Mccarthy
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of G…
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism. - Mary Mccarthy
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
We are the hero of our own story. - Mary Mccarthy
We are the hero of our own story.
The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout… - Mary Mccarthy
The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout…
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. - Mary Mccarthy
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
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