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
Nothing, More, Clearly, Chooses
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
- Renata Adler
Sleep, Unless, Lot, Bored
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
Boredom, Idle, Cruelty, Bored
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
Heat, Process, Very, Fosters
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
- Renata Adler
Person, Ever, Document, Copies
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
- Renata Adler
Generation, Always, Younger, Self-Defeating
Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
- Renata Adler
Fear, Forward, Afraid, Yesterday
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