Renata Adler Quotes

A collection of quotes by Renata Adler.

Renata Adler is an American journalist, author, and critic. She was born in Milan, Italy, in 1938 and later moved to the United States. Adler is best known for her work as a staff writer at The New Yorker and her contributions to The New York Times. She has also written several acclaimed novels, including "Speedboat" and "Pitch Dark." Throughout her career, Adler has received numerous accolades for her insightful and probing writing style, establishing herself as a prominent literary figure.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation young

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

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sl

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.

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents

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. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a gen

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

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clea

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.