• The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

    Mary McCarthy: The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.
    Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy