Consequence Quote by Renata Adler

“My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.”

Renata Adler

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A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

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There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

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“The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.”

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

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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…

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“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of…

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Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several…

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“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…

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My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

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Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

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“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…

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