"The radical intelligence in the moderate position is……" — Renata Adler
"The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems."
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Renata Adler
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32 Quotes by Renata Adler
Renata Adler has 32 quotes on this site.
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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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…
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus…
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People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
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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…
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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.…
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I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products…
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would…
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