Renata Adler Quotes

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind. - Renata Adler

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. - Renata Adler

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. - 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 preoccupations in our time. - Renata Adler

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. - Renata Adler

Fear is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. - Renata Adler

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. - Renata Adler

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. - Renata Adler

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