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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

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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

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But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

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

— Mary McCarthy

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

— Mary McCarthy

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

— Mary McCarthy

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

— Mary McCarthy

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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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I intend to make Georgia howl. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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