Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
Mary McCarthyAll dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.
Mary McCarthyThe relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
Mary McCarthyThe immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof
Mary McCarthy