Renata Adler Quotes

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

"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."
- Renata Adler
(Related: Experience, History, Self)

"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
(Related: 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."
- Renata Adler
(Related: Time, People, Accident, Boredom, Cruelty, Sleep)

"Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel."
- Renata Adler
(Related: People, Sleep)

"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
- Renata Adler
(Related: Fear, Yesterday)