"There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing."

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Source : On the Contrary (1961) "Vita Activa"

Mary McCarthy

#Happiness Quotes #Noticing Quotes

“The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.”
“I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.”
“In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.”
“However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power”

Source : Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.25, Columbia University Press
“I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.”
“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”
“My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.”
“I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.”

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