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Renata Adler has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience…
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to…
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People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense…
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Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a…
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The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught…
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I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without…
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Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a…
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So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis…
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The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing…
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maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling…
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It is snowing inside my head again..... Time to make Snowmen, Angels, whilst I giggle..... Where is my Sled? I shall rush…
— Eric Nickel
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I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling,would be thought No better a musician than…
— William Shakespeare
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