Mary McCarthy

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#life

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#love

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#atlantic #been #buy #crosses #europeans

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#career #european #hazard #life

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#bad #children #consciences #fear #judgment

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#ape #behavior #being #conscious #human

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#europe #negative #proof #unfinished #which

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#bureaucracy #despotism #form #modern #rule

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#every #eye #keyhole #pasted #which

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#away #bad #bad one #difficult #flash