Мэри Маккарти цитаты
Мэри Маккарти
Дата рождения: 21. Июнь 1912
Дата смерти: 25. Октябрь 1989
Другие имена: Mary McCarthyová, Mary Therese McCarthy
Мэ́ри Тере́за Макка́рти — американская писательница, публицист и критик, социалист.
Мэри Маккарти симпатизировала коммунистам, но после московских процессов солидаризировалась с Львом Троцким и осуждала сталинизм. Входя в коллектив журнала «Partisan Review», где приобрела репутацию талантливого критика, также печаталась в «The Nation», «The New Republic», «Harper’s Magazine» и «The New York Review of Books». После Второй мировой войны выступала с критикой и маккартизма, и советского строя. Во время войны во Вьетнаме несколько раз посещала Вьетнам и выступала с критикой негативного изображения вьетнамских партизан в западных СМИ.
Была замужем четыре раза. Начиная с 1938 года, её мужем был известный литературный критик Эдмунд Уилсон, в этом браке у Мэри Маккарти родился сын, Reuel Wilson.
Одной из её ближайших подруг была Ханна Арендт. Wikipedia
Цитаты Мэри Маккарти
„A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.“
"Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue", p. 185
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
„In violence, we forget who we are.“
"Characters in Fiction", p. 276. First published in Partisan Review (March 1961)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
„Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils“
"The Hue and Cry," The Writing on the Wall (1970)
Контексте: Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils (“a person of inhuman and horrible cruelty or wickedness,” OED, Sense 4). Such an unnatural being is more horrible to contemplate than an Eichmann — that is, aesthetically worse — but morally an Ilse Koch was surely less culpable than Eichmann since she seems to have had no trace of human feeling and therefore was impassable to conscience.
„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 — how to express this — you really must make the self.“
Interview by Elisabeth Niebuhr in "The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Second Series" (1963) [the interview took place in March 1961]
Контексте: 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 — how to express this — you really must make the self. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won’t find it, but it’s possible in some sense to make it.
„What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?“
Источник: Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
„You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.“
— Mary McCarthy, книга The Group
Dottie in Ch. 2
The Group (1963)
„Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.“
As quoted in "Lady with a Switchblade" in LIFE magazine (20 September 1963) http://books.google.com/books?id=e1IEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Europeans+used+to+say+Americans+were+puritanical+Then+they+discovered+that+we+were+not+puritans+So+now+they+say+that+we+are+obsessed+with+sex%22&pg=PA62#v=onepage
„As happens with sports and hobbies, his enjoyment was solemnized by expertise, the rites of comparing, collating, a half-deliberate parody of scholarship like the recitation of batting averages.“
"The Writing on the Wall"
The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays (1970)
„We all know in our gut that art educates. In other societies, they're aware of the power it has of speaking directly to the masses, teaching them to be better socialists, better citizens. The trouble is that with us it's fallen into the wrong hands. Forget the speculators… The concept of the collector is so rotten by now that it stinks.“
— Mary McCarthy, книга Cannibals and Missionaries
Cannibals and Missionaries (1979)
„The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.“
"Gandhi", p. 22. First published in Politics (Winter 1948)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
„Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.“
Comment about Lillian Hellman in a televised interview (1979) on The Dick Cavett Show; this prompted a defamation suit against McCarthy which was dropped after Hellman's death: "If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on. I didn't want her to die. I wanted her to lose in court. I wanted her around for that."
„If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.“
"The American Realist Playwrights", p. 296. First published in Harper's Magazine (July 1961)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
