Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired … - Renata Adler

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Renata Adler

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

Aftermath, Echo, Echoes, Principle, Self, Time

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Sleep, Blessing, People, Cruel, Bored, Time

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

Met, Phones, Sleep, Write, Writing

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Book, Bored, People, Reading, Sleep, Unless

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

Life, Thinking, Long, Same, Throw, Exactly

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Consequences, Dislike, Gun, Mind, Preserves, Shelves