Quotes by Renata Adler

Renata Adler

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

Conversation

Linear

Strategy

And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody’s brother, somebody’s usher, somebody’s roommate, somebody’s roommate’s usher’s brother… The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.

Book

Brother

Years

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

Cards

Kind

Purpose

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

Book

Reading

Sleep

Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

Accidents

Important

Important Things

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Language

Realizing

Sound

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

Fear

Yesterday

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

Care

Literature

Mets

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

Laconic

Numbers

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there’s this great herd, the “herd of independent minds.”

Independent

Mean

Thinking

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Air

Ambition

Art

Bears

Blessing

Book

Boredom

Brother

Calling

Cancer

Capacity

Cards

Care

Changed

Classroom

Cocktail Parties

Coincidence

Community

Competition

Conversation

Copies

Criticism

Differences

Different

Dramatic

Echoes

Election

Fashion

Fear

Feelings

Festivals

Garden

Good Times

Grandmother

Grew Up

Gun

Halt

Hero

Important

Important Things

Independent

Insomnia

Inspirational

Intelligent

Kind

Kindness

Laconic

Language

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Quotes by Renata Adler

Renata Adler

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

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

Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

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

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there’s this great herd, the “herd of independent minds.”

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