I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative. - Renata Adler
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
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…
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. - Renata Adler
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
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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