In violence we forget who we are. Auteur: Mary McCarthy Copy Quote More from Mary McCarthy “What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.” “You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings …” “What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?” “Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternall…”