Renata Adler
Renata Adler
Renata Adleris an American author, journalist, and film critic...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 October 1938
CityMilan, Italy
CountryItaly
important important-things accidents
Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?
good-times odd capacity
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
naps littles
I took a little celebrational nap.
cards purpose kind
Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.
numbers laconic
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
sound language realizing
Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
radical position seems
The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.
profound moral sanity
Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.
movie art people
The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.
movie people very-good
Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.
uncles cancer grandmother
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.
strategy linear conversation
A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.
political matter unconscious
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political
election vote counting
If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.