Quote by Renata Adler
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generatio

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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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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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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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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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. – Jean Cocteau

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No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. – Cyril Connolly

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Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. – Martin Amis

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