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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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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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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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