"Scratch a socialist and you find a snob."

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Source : Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

Mary McCarthy

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“I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.”
“There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.”
“I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.”
“In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.”
“God save us from people who mean well.”

Source : Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.261, Penguin Books India
“But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!”
“Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.”
“Since humans first huddled around campfires, stories have been told of wild horses with wind in their manes, fire in their eyes and freedom in their hearts. Those horses eluded capture, and scorned the comforts of civilization. Americans have insisted they want their wild horses to live that way, forever.”

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