The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Mary McCarthy quote The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Mary McCarthy quote You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Mary McCarthy quote We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy quote To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.
Mary McCarthy quote People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthy quote Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Mary McCarthy quote I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.
Mary McCarthy quote Biography
1912-89, US novelist and critic
