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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History
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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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great
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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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Mental Illness
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. – Maurice Blanchot

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. – G. K. Chesterton

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Taste is the feminine of genius. – Lord Edward Fitzgerald

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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. – Nan Fairbrother

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Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring. – Terri Guillemets

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