Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not … - Renata Adler

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As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.

Renata Adler

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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