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.
Renata Adler

Time, Great, Sleep

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

Sleep, Bored, Cruel

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler

History, Experience, Generation

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

Fear, Forward, Afraid

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

Strange, Process, Profound

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

Person, Secret, Destroys

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

Life, Nothing, Themselves

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Journalist

Born: October 19, 1938

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