Frasi di Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy è stata una scrittrice statunitense.

Studiò al Vassar College di Poughkeepsie, nello stato di New York e, dopo la laurea, iniziò subito a collaborare con le riviste The Nation e New Republic, per poi redigere articoli di critica teatrale sulla rivista Partisan Review.

La sua prima antologia di racconti, The Company She Keeps, fu acclamato dalla critica come un successo.

Degna di nota è anche l'autobiografia Ricordi di un'educazione cattolica , analisi critica della società americana del suo tempo, soprattutto del periodo della guerra fredda.

Ebbe un certo successo anche Il gruppo , disincantata e spregiudicata storia di un gruppo di amiche, da quando erano studentesse a quando diventarono donne.

Nel 1984 le fu assegnata la Medaglia Edward MacDowell, riconoscimento in ambito letterario. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Giugno 1912 – 25. Ottobre 1989   •   Altri nomi Mary McCarthyová, Mary Therese McCarthy
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Mary McCarthy: Frasi in inglese

“In violence, we forget who we are.”

"Characters in Fiction", p. 276. First published in Partisan Review (March 1961)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils”

"The Hue and Cry," The Writing on the Wall (1970)
Contesto: Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils (“a person of inhuman and horrible cruelty or wickedness,” OED, Sense 4). Such an unnatural being is more horrible to contemplate than an Eichmann — that is, aesthetically worse — but morally an Ilse Koch was surely less culpable than Eichmann since she seems to have had no trace of human feeling and therefore was impassable to conscience.

“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 — how to express this — you really must make the self.”

Interview by Elisabeth Niebuhr in "The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Second Series" (1963) [the interview took place in March 1961]
Contesto: 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 — how to express this — you really must make the self. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won’t find it, but it’s possible in some sense to make it.

“What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?”

Origine: Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975

“You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.”

Mary McCarthy libro The Group

Dottie in Ch. 2
The Group (1963)

“Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.”

As quoted in "Lady with a Switchblade" in LIFE magazine (20 September 1963) http://books.google.com/books?id=e1IEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Europeans+used+to+say+Americans+were+puritanical+Then+they+discovered+that+we+were+not+puritans+So+now+they+say+that+we+are+obsessed+with+sex%22&pg=PA62#v=onepage

“Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.”

Comment about Lillian Hellman in a televised interview (1979) on The Dick Cavett Show; this prompted a defamation suit against McCarthy which was dropped after Hellman's death: "If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on. I didn't want her to die. I wanted her to lose in court. I wanted her around for that."

“If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.”

"The American Realist Playwrights", p. 296. First published in Harper's Magazine (July 1961)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”

"My Confession", p. 74. First published in two parts in The Reporter (December 22, 1953 and January 5, 1954)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.”

Commenting on her novel The Group. New York Herald Tribune (5 January 1964)

“The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the bother of talk after dinner.”

"Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue", p. 185. First published in two parts in The Reporter (July 18 and August 1, 1950)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.”

"Characters in Fiction", p. 291
Sometimes misquoted as "We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

“[I]n science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.”

"The Fact in Fiction", p. 266. First published in Partisan Review (Summer 1960)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

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