Mary McCarthy (author)
Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American author, critic and political activist.
Read more about Mary McCarthy (author): Early Life, Beliefs As An Adult, Social Life, Literary Reputation, Death, Selected Works
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“I want that head so sanitary and squared away that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in there and take a dump.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“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 (1912–1989)