Quotes about Anatole Broyard

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

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People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be...

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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some...

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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The...

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed...

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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play...

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The tension between yes and o, between I can and I cannot, makes us feel...

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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back...

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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives...

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