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— Mary McCarthy"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
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