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

~Mary Mccarthy

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

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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.

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Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 21st, 1912

Died: October 25th, 1989

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