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    When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
    Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
    Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

    ... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)