"The writer has a grudge against society, which……" — Renata Adler
"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."
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32 Quotes by Renata Adler
Renata Adler has 32 quotes on this site.
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your…
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus…
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People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary…
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and…
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Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you…
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The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
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Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over.…
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I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
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The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.
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