Renata Adler
Renata Adler
Renata Adleris an American author, journalist, and film critic...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 October 1938
CityMilan, Italy
CountryItaly
Renata Adler quotes about
fashion self clothes
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.
brother book years
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.
cards purpose kind
Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.
style students classroom
The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.
naps littles
I took a little celebrational nap.
new-york grew changed
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.
good-times odd capacity
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
important important-things accidents
Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?
profound world bears
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
writing talking next
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.
profound moral sanity
Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.
hero phones calling
In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.
election vote counting
If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.
political matter unconscious
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political