Renata Adler

Renata Adler (born October 19, 1937) is an American author, journalist and film critic.

Quotes

Pitch Dark (1983)

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

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

• 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