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

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Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.15, New York Review of Books

Renata Adler

#Good Times Quotes #Odd Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.”
“When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.”
“Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”
“This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.”
“The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Donâ€™t listen to themâ€”listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.”
“When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 07, 2015
“This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.”

Source : "The Call (United States, 2013)". A movie review by James Berardinelli, www.reelviews.net. March 15, 2013.
“The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.”

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