3 Mary McCarthy Quotes on Culture

Mary McCarthy quotes on culture

3. The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

6. 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.

27. 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.