Quotes by : Renata Adler

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized....

But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing....

Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then....

The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in....

Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident.....

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.