Mary McCarthy Quotes about Lying

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

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

Mary McCarthy

Funny, Lying, Writing

Dick Cavett Show (television program), Jan. 1980.

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

Mary McCarthy

Prayer, Lying, Character

Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

Mary McCarthy

Lying, Men, Extraordinary Person

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

Mary McCarthy

Lying, Reality, Differences

this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.

Mary McCarthy

Growing Up, Lying, Sleep

Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

Mary McCarthy Quotes about Lying

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