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Quotes from The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays — Mary McCarthy

1947–1989 United States

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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 and Other Literary Essays (1970)

Judas was not a monster, though his act was monstrous; he was a man, the twelfth part of humanity, and his sin was that he could betray for thirty pieces of silver, like any common informer. Jesus was uncommon, not Judas.

The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays (1970)

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