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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
Of Lillian Hellman
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Waves of shame ran through her, like savage internal blushes.
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.
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It's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
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Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.
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A doubt would suddenly dart out of her, like a mouse from its hole.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
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A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
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My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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She had the brusque, brutal air of a person detailed to cut Gordian knots.
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We are a nation of twenty million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.
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Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.
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On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
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To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.
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It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
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If you want to be your own master... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.
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The relation between life and literature — a final antimony — is one of mutual plagiarism.
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Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
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A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
Mary McCarthy
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Born:
June 21, 1912
Died:
October 25, 1989
(aged 77)
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