People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.
"Renata Adler" is an American author, journalist and film critic.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Renata Adler on Wikipedia.Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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.
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
At six one morning, Will went out in jeans and frayed sweater to buy a quart of milk. A tourist bus went by. The megaphone was directed at him. "There's one," it said. That was in the l960s. Ever since, he's wondered. There's one what?
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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.
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