Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time. Renata Adler More Quotes by Renata Adler More Quotes From Renata Adler The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems. Renata Adler radical position seems There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political. Renata Adler unconscious political matter And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book. Renata Adler brother book years the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts. Renata Adler festivals competition art 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. Renata Adler election vote halt It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. Renata Adler pretend generation experience history
