"It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."

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Source : Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

Renata Adler

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“If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...”
“Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.”
“Every day's a blessing, right? It's all in your control.”
“I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.”

Source : "Renowned journalist throws the book at Scientology". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.
“Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.”
“Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.”
“You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.”

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