it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.
Mary McCarthyI was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.
Mary McCarthy