"Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are…" — Renata Adler

"Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel."

— Renata Adler

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32 Quotes by Renata Adler

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your…
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus…
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary…
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you…
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over.…
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

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