"There are times when every act, no matter……" — Renata Adler

"There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political"

— Renata Adler

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32 Quotes by Renata Adler

Renata Adler has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your…
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus…
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary…
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you…
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over.…
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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