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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
History
Read Quote

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

Category:
great
Read Quote

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

Category:
Mental Illness
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Style
category

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. – Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Category:
Style

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

Category:
Style

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

Category:
Style

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. – Jean De La Bruyere

Category:
Style

Random Quotes

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. – Elihu Root

Category:
Peace

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and youll have a good life. – Adam Carolla

Category:
Business

Foreign Ministry guys dont become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. – Aldrich Ames

Category:
Intelligence

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
Vegetarianism