"The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress."

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Source : Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”

Renata Adler

#Sex Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“In every moment there is a reason to carry on.”

Source : Song: Whenever I Call You "Friend"
“I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.”
“Some people will always be disappointed.”

Source : "Director Len Wiseman and Producer Toby Jaffe Talk Referencing the Original, Sequel Possibilities and More on the Set of TOTAL RECALL". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2012.
“If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.”

Source : "Interview with Giulio Andreotti, Italian Former Prime Minister". Interview with Bill Delaney, www.cnn.com. September 24, 1995.
“Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.”
“...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.”
“Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than”
“I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.”

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