In violence, we forget who we are.
From Mary McCarthy
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
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.
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
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