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Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative criticism isn’t criticism at all: it’s just nasty, writerly cliché and invective. (Renata Adler Quotes)
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. (Renata Adler Quotes)
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. (Renata Adler Quotes)
There are so many different types of writers. It’s just sheer coincidence that they’re all called writers. (Renata Adler Quotes)
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath (Renata Adler Quotes)
There are so many different types of writers. It’s just sheer coincidence that they’re all called writers (Renata Adler Quotes)
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 (Renata Adler Quotes)
Sanity... is the most profound moral option of our time (Renata Adler Quotes)
I took a little celebrational nap (Renata Adler Quotes)
There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience (Renata Adler Quotes)
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political (Renata Adler Quotes)
Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away? (Renata Adler Quotes)
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions (Renata Adler Quotes)
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel (Renata Adler Quotes)
Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday (Renata Adler Quotes)
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number (Renata Adler Quotes)
Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway (Renata Adler Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document (Renata Adler Quotes)
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 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 Quotes)
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 (Renata Adler Quotes)
Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from (Renata Adler Quotes)
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born (Renata Adler Quotes)
The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems (Renata Adler Quotes)
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature (Renata Adler Quotes)
The time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts (Renata Adler Quotes)
And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody’s brother, somebody’s usher, somebody’s roommate, somebody’s roommate’s usher’s brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book (Renata Adler Quotes)
Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself (Renata Adler Quotes)
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