We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

—Mary McCarthy

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The worst thing that can happen to a writer is to become a Writer.

—Mary McCarthy

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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished equation.

—Mary McCarthy

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How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin.… Murder is more civilized than divorce; the Victorians, as usual, were wiser.

—Mary McCarthy

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

—Mary McCarthy

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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak

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There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

—Jonathan Tropper in One Last Thing Before I Go

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You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky’s still clear, but the wind’s starting to cool off and change direction. You know something’s coming, but you don’t always know what. That’s how things feel to me right now.

—P.C. Cast in Betrayed

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