Quotes by 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.
• No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
• It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
• In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
• 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.
• Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
• Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.