Bohemianism Quote by Renata Adler Download Open image ““…a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian”” — Renata Adler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bohemianism Pretension
“I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than read Max Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker. And one… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“For Calvin, to accept compromise when Scripture has spoken is to affront the divine majesty of the Author. What” — Burk Parsons Copy Share Image
“What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism—beyond question the most brutal and barbaric theology ever… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“But Ockenga did not shy away from identifying himself—and his pulpit—with Calvinism, which many years prior had shaped the New England mind. “Whatever we… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind… — Marcus Clarke Copy Share Image
“Calvin had been frozen for almost 300 years. After that, he had been quarantined to a laboratory for several days, fed kitten, insulted by… — Brian Cramer Copy Share Image
“He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings, saints and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Calvin was still eating; he was a beast! Even Lucky had already given up by then. “Whoa…” — Steve the Noob Copy Share Image
A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“I think that when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.” — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“Every love story,every commercial trade, every secret, every matter in which trust is involved, is a gentle transaction of hostages. Everything is, to a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“I've had our paper's gossip column since last month. It is egalitarian. I look for people who are quite obscure, and report who is… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.” — Virginia Nicholson Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around, let strangers come in and spread… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
