Renata Adler Quotes

• Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.

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

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• 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.

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• In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

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

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• 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.

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

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• It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

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Renata Adler (8)

Birth:	13th October, 1938
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Writer

About

Redler was born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. After gaining a B.A. in Philosophy and German from Bryn Mawr, where she studied under José Ferrater Mora, Adler studied for an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard under I. A. Richards and Roman Jakobson, before pursuing her interest in Philosophy, Linguistics and Structuralism at the Sorbonne, where she gained a D. d'E.S. under the tutelage of Jean Wahl and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

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