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«In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| Keywords:
blush, European, sufferings, the Enlightenment, townspeople, upper class, verities, verity
«It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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acknowledged, beatnik, capitalist, convention, fringe, fringed, fringes, fringe benefit, herds, hippie, hippies, in for, marketing, obedient, obsolescence, strangely
«Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.»
«Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.»
«We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.»
«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.»
«The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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America and Americans,
Movies
| Keywords:
abroad, demonstrates, immense, movies, popularity, unfinished
«An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question»
«Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| Keywords:
The European
«Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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gravy, hack, hacking, hacks, illiterate, parts of speech, part of speech, patronage, slovenly, spotted, unctuous, vests
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