Mary McCarthy was born on June 21, 1912 in Seattle, Washington, USA as Mary Therese McCarthy. She was a writer, known for The Group (1966), Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) and Mary McCarthy's Paris (1964). She was married to James Raymond West, Bowden Broadwater, Edmund Wilson and Harold Johnsrud. She died on October 25, 1989 in New ...
[on Eugene O'Neill] He belongs to that group of American authors which includes Farrell and Dreiser, whose choice of vocation was a kind of triumphant catastrophe. None of these men possessed the slightest ear for the word, the sentence, the speech, the paragraph. What they produce is hard to praise or condemn. How is one to judge the great, logical symphony of a tone-deaf musician?
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[on Lillian Hellman] Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Life for the European is a career. For the American it is a hazard.
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In science, all facts - no matter how trivial or banal - enjoy democratic equality.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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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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