Renata Adler - Pitch Dark (1983)

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The forward-directed attitudes, I think, are these: curiosity, ambition, love, courage, hunger, duty, rage. They may be backward-formed, but they are forward directed, moving toward the future. Fear, too, of course, is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

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Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

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Here, on the other hand, with an ingenuity that should take an entrepreneurial schemer's breath away, there has evolved the following proposition: that a legal job no sooner comes into existence than it generates, immediately and of necessity, a job for a competitor. Page 118

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This is my little disquisition about football: the quarterback, the center, and the towel. Page 116

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But we do not normally mistake progressions of weakness, the loss of the simple capacity to escape, for the onset of love. Page 17

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