Renata Adler

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them. ↗

— Renata Adler

#change

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language. ↗

— Renata Adler

#sexism #anger

The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time. ↗

— Renata Adler

#money #pressure #time #art

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. ↗

— Renata Adler

#fear #forward #yesterday

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

#brings #fosters #heat #litigation #misunderstandings

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

#bored #boredom #cruel #cruelty #great

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

#clearly #community #consensus #defines #life

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. ↗

— Renata Adler

#destroys #document #ever #only #person

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

— Renata Adler

#cruel #lot #people #sleep #unless

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

— Renata Adler

#erases #experience #generation #history #own