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Renata Adler Quotes

«In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.»
«The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, 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 the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.»
«Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.»
Author: Renata Adler | Keywords: bored
«Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.»
Author: Renata Adler
«No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.»
Author: Renata Adler
«People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Renata Adler
«Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.»
Author: Renata Adler | Keywords: chooses, regard as, unwell
«It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history»
Author: Renata Adler | Keywords: erases, self-defeating