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Renata Adler quotes: My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

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.

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: I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

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.

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: altogether too much of life is mood. Aldo

altogether too much of life is mood. Aldo

Renata Adler quotes: My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind - like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

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 quotes: It is all weird. I am not always well.

It is all weird. I am not always well.

Renata Adler quotes: The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time.

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

Renata Adler quotes: Self-pity is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

Self-pity is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

Renata Adler quotes: The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

Renata Adler quotes: The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

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

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

Renata Adler quotes: She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

Renata Adler quotes: Aldo said he was bored to tearsies by my grandmother's diminutives.

Aldo said he was bored to tearsies by my grandmother's diminutives.

Renata Adler quotes: Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

Renata Adler quotes: Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

Renata Adler quotes: But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

Renata Adler quotes: The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

Renata Adler quotes: The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.

The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.

Renata Adler quotes: ... the particular consequence of his moral vanity was that when he did people an injury, he never forgave them. Never again.

... the particular consequence of his moral vanity was that when he did people an injury, he never forgave them. Never again.

Renata Adler quotes: There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

Renata Adler quotes: I took a little celebrational nap.

I took a little celebrational nap.

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.

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: People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

Renata Adler quotes: Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

Renata Adler quotes: No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

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

Renata Adler quotes: Do you realize how angry you sound? must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

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

Renata Adler quotes: Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

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.

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: There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

Renata Adler quotes: ... a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian

... a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian

Renata Adler quotes: Fear ... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

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