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

Renata Adler
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  3. Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality. - L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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  1. People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

  2. Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

  3. He writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of...

  4. There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you live with, how you wear your hair, whether you marry, whether you insist that your child take piano lessons, what are the brand names on your shelf; all these...

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