Renata Adler Quotes (1937-)

“This is my little disquisition about football: the quarterback, the center, and the towel. p. 116”

“But we do not normally mistake progressions of weakness, the loss of the simple capacity to escape, for the onset of love. p. 17”

“Here, on the other hand, with an ingenuity that should take an entrepreneurial schemer’s breath away, there has evolved the following proposition: that a legal job no sooner comes into existence than it generates, immediately and of necessity, a job for a competitor. p. 118”