Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.
Mary McCarthyBe truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.
Mary McCarthyThe famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.
Mary McCarthySex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
Mary McCarthy