Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.
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.
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…
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.
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of… - Renata Adler
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of…
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