77 Quotes by Renata Adler

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.

The second rat, of course, may have been the first rat farther uptown, in which case I am either being followed or the rat keeps the same rounds and hours I do. I think sanity, however, is the most profound moral option of our time. Two rats, then.

The shortest distance between two points may well be the wrong way on a one way street.

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time.

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

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.