We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
From Mary McCarthy
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.
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
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