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.
Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time. - Renata Adler
Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.
- Renata Adler
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature. - Renata Adler
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political. - Renata Adler
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.
Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances … - Renata Adler
Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances …
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. - Renata Adler
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative. - Renata Adler
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers. - Renata Adler
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sen… - Renata Adler
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sen…
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 preoccupation… - 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 preoccupation…
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