Mary McCarthy

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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