Renata Adler Quotes
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.
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It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.
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I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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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 cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
