Quote by Renata Adler
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger tha

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

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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. – Renata Adler

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Style
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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. – Renata Adler

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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. – Renata Adler

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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? – Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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History
[History is] a damn dim candle over a damn dark abyss. – W. Stull Holt

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History

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. – Theodor Adorno

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History

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. – Stefan Zweig

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History

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