{"author":"Mary McCarthy","author_id":"Mary+McCarthy","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["eye","which","every "],"id":6326,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["inspirational","mary-mccarthy","quotes"],"id":12164,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.'(on Lillian Hellman).","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["insults","lies"],"id":52889,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"Liberty  as it is conceived by current opinion  has nothing inherent about it  it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["liberty","human","rights"],"id":54092,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"Bureaucracy  the rule of no one  has become the modern form of despotism.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["government","rule"],"id":83270,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"The happy ending is our national belief.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["hope"],"id":89094,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"In science  all facts  no matter how trivial or banal  enjoy democratic equality.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["science","technology"],"id":113719,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["perspective","religion","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":119396,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["equality","enjoy","facts "],"id":119688,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"},{"text":"Every word she writes is a lie  including and and the.","author":"Mary McCarthy","tags":["insults"],"id":181960,"author_id":"Mary+McCarthy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}