People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
From Mary McCarthy
We are the hero of our own story.
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
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