Mary McCarthy Quotes about Life

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We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Mary McCarthy

Life, Hero, Positive Attitude

"Characters in Fiction". Partisan Review, March/April 1961.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

Mary McCarthy

Life, Europe, Careers

Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.

Mary McCarthy

Life, Character, Cities

"On the contrary".

Mary McCarthy Quotes about Life

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