“ There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you live with, how you wear your hair, whether you marry, whether you insist that your child take piano le… 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ The girls were always running out of money, out of cash, precisely, to pay taxi drivers, train conductors, men who delivered pizzas after dark. They borrowed cash, normally, upon arrival. They borrowe… Renata Adler
“ The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives. Renata Adler
“ The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have acce… Renata Adler
“ My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing. Renata Adler
“ Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The cit… Renata Adler
“ But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life Renata Adler
“ Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language. Renata Adler
“ Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone.… Renata Adler
“ He writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpo… Renata Adler
