Renata Adler - Time Quotes

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

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Sanity... is the most profound moral option of our time.

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The time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.

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Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

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One of the frightening things about our time is the number of people who think it is a form of intellectual audacity to be stupid. A whole generation seems to be taking on an easy distrust of thought.

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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 lives and I still lead some of them.

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

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In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.

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