"My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mindâ€”like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing."

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Renata Adler

#Gun Quotes #Mind Quotes #Shelves Quotes

“To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.”
“If they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.”
“A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.”
“I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.”
“There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.”
“Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.”
“Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.”
“Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.”

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