# Quote — Renata Adler, Pitch Dark

> Here, on the other hand, with an ingenuity that should take an entrepreneurial schemer’s breath away, there has evolved the following proposition: that a legal job no sooner comes into existence than it generates, immediately and of necessity, a job for a competitor. p. 118

- Author: [Renata Adler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/renata-adler.md)
- Book: [Pitch Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/renata-adler/pitch-dark.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Renata_Adler#Pitch_Dark_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/renata-adler/pitch-dark/here-on-the

## More from this book

> But we do not normally mistake progressions of weakness, the loss of the simple capacity to escape, for the onset of love. p. 17

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/renata-adler/pitch-dark/but-we-do-not.md)

> This is my little disquisition about football: the quarterback, the center, and the towel. p. 116

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/renata-adler/pitch-dark/this-is-my-little.md)