Mary McCarthy - Feel Quotes

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The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.

Mary McCarthy
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 — how to express this — you really must make the self. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it.

Mary McCarthy
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made man feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Mary McCarthy
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
It was getting rather alarming. I realised one day that in twenty four hours I had slept with three different men. And one morning I was in bed with somebody while over his head I talked on the telephone with somebody else…I did not feel promiscuous. Maybe no-one does. And maybe more girls sleep with more men than you would ever think to look at them.

Mary McCarthy
Most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Mary McCarthy
Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

Mary McCarthy