Renata Adler Quotes
But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life
he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unreal...
Show MoreSelf-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you li...
Show MoreIt is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own it simply...
Show MoreThe style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.
The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in...
Show MorePeople who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and ...
Show MoreMy dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing...
Show MoreSometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-eviden...
Show MoreMy capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
