"Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation."

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Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.24, New York Review of Books

Renata Adler

#Cards Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Writing has freed me from the despair of living.”
“The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.”
“Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!”
“There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.”
“He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.”
“We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.”
“It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!”

Source : Robert William Service, “Carry On”
“The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'”

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