Mary McCarthy Quotes about Past

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Mary McCarthy

Witty, Eye, Past

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

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

Mary McCarthy

Successful, Past, Trying

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Mary McCarthy

Children, Past, Reality

Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.16, Random House

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

Mary McCarthy

Writing, Past, Men

Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

Mary McCarthy Quotes about Past

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