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.

Renata Adler
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  3. The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. - Oscar Wilde

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  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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