Author: 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

- Renata Adler

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