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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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A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
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Renata Adler
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October 19, 1937
(age 87)
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