Mary McCarthy - Love Quotes

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The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

Mary McCarthy

Love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

Mary McCarthy

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

Mary McCarthy

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex — that's quite a thought, isn't it?

Mary McCarthy

I was able to compare the sexual equipment of the various men I made love with and there were amazing differences, in both length and massiveness. One handsome married man, who used to arrive with two Danishes from a very good bakery, had a penis about the size and shape of a lead pencil; he shall remain nameless. In my experience there was usually a relation to height, as Philip Rahv and Bill Mangold, both tall men, bore out. There may be dwarfish men with monstrously large organs, but I have never known one. It was not until later, after my second divorce, that I met an impotent man or a pervert (two of the latter)... None of my partners, the reader will be relieved to hear, had a venereal disease.

Mary McCarthy