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  1. Mary McCarthy _ The Group:

    It was the cocktail hour in Priss's room at New York Hospital-terribly gay.
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  2. Mary McCarthy _ The Group:

    But this poor chap is a dangerous neurotic." Polly laughed. "So you saw that, Father. I never could. He always seemed so normal." "It's the same thing," said her father, putting the groceries away. "All neurotics are petty bourgeois. And vice versa. Madness is too revolutionary for them. They can't go the whole hog. We madmen are the aristocrats of mental illness. You could never marry that fellow, my dear.
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  3. Mary McCarthy _ The Group:

    The group was not afraid of being radical either; they could see the good Roosevelt was doing, despite what Mother and Dad said; they were not taken in by party labels and thought the Democrats should be given a chance to show what they had up their sleeve.
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  4. Mary McCarthy _ The Group:

    I mean exactly that," Mr. Davison retorted. "You've hit the nail smack on the head. We pay a price for having money. People in my position"-he turned to Kay-"have 'privilege.' That's what I read in the Nation and the New Republic." Mrs. Davison nodded. "Good," said Mr. Davison. "Now listen. The fellow who's got privilege gives up some rights or ought to.
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  5. Mary McCarthy _ The Group:

    All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn't express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it-in other men's words.
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  6. Mary McCarthy _ The Group:

    You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex-that's quite a thought, isn't it?
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  7. Mary McCarthy _ The Group:

    I understand what you are feeling," he said. "As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.
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  8. Mary McCarthy _ The Group:

    One of the big features of living alone was that you could talk to yourself all you wanted and address imaginary audiences, running the gamut of emotion.
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